Mumbai: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend the end of the UN climate summit, joining dozens of leaders including US President Barack Obama, in the latest sign of growing momentum toward a new global accord.
Singh will go on December 17 to the Copenhagen talks which are due to end the following day, a spokesman in the Prime Minister's office said on Saturday.
India, the world's fourth biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, said this week that it would aim to cut carbon intensity by 20-25 per cent by 2020 compared with 2005 levels.
Carbon intensity is the amount of carbon dioxide emitted for each unit of economic output.
The White House said on Friday that Obama would attend the end of the Copenhagen summit, rather than on December 9 as originally planned, and the US administration has been encouraged by announcements by India and China setting targets to rein in emissions.
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