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India, Canada to cooperate in environment issues

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: India and Canada on Thursday discussed various issues related to environmental cooperation, including in the field of technology transfer, clean development mechanism (CDM) and the forthcoming negotiations at the 11th Conference of Parties (COP-11) on further progress of global climate change regime to be held in Montreal in November.

The discussions were held between Union Environment and Health Minister A. Raja and Canadian Deputy Minister of Environment Samy Watson here. Expressing a desire to participate in the preparatory meeting in Ottawa in September this year to discuss various proposals to be considered for the negotiations , Mr. Raja said India would ensure further progress in CDM projects.

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