Reuters, New Delhi

China, Brazil, South Africa and India want a global climate treaty wrapped up by June 2010, according to a joint draft document prepared for the Copenhagen climate summit which opened on Monday.
Some 192 countries gathered in the Danish capital for the world’s biggest climate conference, meant to agree the outline of a new climate treaty.
World leaders will attend the closing on Dec 18. Decisions by leaders to join the Copenhagen talks have buoyed the Dec. 7-18 meeting but time has run out to agree a full legal treaty, intended for next year. [Read more]