<p>Talking tough, four emerging economies, including India, asked rich nations to explain what action they have taken to ensure a steady flow of finance and technology to the developing world, which will bear the brunt of the dangerous consequences of climate change.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“Developed countries have to show evidence of what they are doing in finance and technology-transfer. We are not obliged to show what we have done,” said Xie Zhenhua, vice-chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission of China at the Brazil-South Africa-India-China (BASIC) meeting on climate change here.<br /><br />Environment minister Prakash Javadekar said: “Developing nations, including India, take more concrete action than developed nations. We have evidence to show our results.”<br /><br />Environment ministers from the BASIC countries met in Delhi to a thrash out a common strategy so that they do not fall behind the developed world when a new global climate change treaty is be formulated in the UN climate summit in Paris in 2015 to replace the Kyoto Protocol.<br /><br />The BASIC group is disappointed over the continuous lack of any clear roadmap to provide $100 billion per year by developed countries by 2020. </p>
<p>Talking tough, four emerging economies, including India, asked rich nations to explain what action they have taken to ensure a steady flow of finance and technology to the developing world, which will bear the brunt of the dangerous consequences of climate change.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“Developed countries have to show evidence of what they are doing in finance and technology-transfer. We are not obliged to show what we have done,” said Xie Zhenhua, vice-chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission of China at the Brazil-South Africa-India-China (BASIC) meeting on climate change here.<br /><br />Environment minister Prakash Javadekar said: “Developing nations, including India, take more concrete action than developed nations. We have evidence to show our results.”<br /><br />Environment ministers from the BASIC countries met in Delhi to a thrash out a common strategy so that they do not fall behind the developed world when a new global climate change treaty is be formulated in the UN climate summit in Paris in 2015 to replace the Kyoto Protocol.<br /><br />The BASIC group is disappointed over the continuous lack of any clear roadmap to provide $100 billion per year by developed countries by 2020. </p>
