British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will press emerging economic giants India and China for their support for a new global climate change deal when he travels there next month, he said Wednesday.
He voiced confidence that the world will agree a deal to accelerate cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions after the Kyoto Protocol pledges run out in 2012, after a "historic breakthrough" in Bali this month.
"I'll be visiting China and India because I want to talk to these very important countries not just about the global economy but about... climate change," he told reporters. After the Bali talks, "people can see the possibility now of a post-2012 agreement on climate change.