India could reduce its carbon intensity by 24% by 2020 compared with 2005 levels, government sources revealed today.

The leaked figures, which emerged ahead of the Copenhagen climate change summit next Monday, follow Beijing’s announcement last week that China would move to cut carbon intensity – the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of economic growth – by more than 40% by 2020.

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