India hopes for progress in climate change discussion with G8

2009-07-10 07:57:58 GMT2009-07-10 15:57:58 (Beijing Time) Xinhua English

NEW DELHI, July 10 (Xinhua) -- India is hopeful that the discussion of climate change will move forward with the G8 countries, with the setting up of a Green Fund, reported the Indo-Asian News Service Friday.

The news service quoted Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's special envoy on climate change, Shyam Saran, as saying that the step by the G8 to provide financial assistance to the Green Fund was a "forward-looking one".

"It is a forward-looking document and a positive advancement on what we have been able to achieve in the past," Shyam Saran was quoted as saying after the G8-G5 outreach meeting in "Aquila, Italy.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has suggested setting up the fund with 100 billion U.S. dollars, Saran was quoted as saying in the report.

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