INDIA

INDIA / भारत.

8th Session of UN Conference on Climate Change, New Delhi.
Mangroves.
Minisheet issued on 30.10.2002.
Face value: 5 + 5 + 5 + 15 Indian rupee.
Design: K. Singh.
Printed by Calcutta Security Printers, Ltd., Kanpur.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 192 x 85 mm.

Catalogs 
- Michel No. BL14.
- Scott No. 1978a.
- StampWorld No. 1927-2930.
- Stanley Gibbons No. MS2094.

The sessions took place in New Delhi between October 23 and November 1, 2002. Global warming and greenhouse gas emissions were discussed at this meeting. At the time of the meeting some 96 nations had ratified the Kyoto Protocol, but this was still not enough to bring it into effect internationally. Russia's agreement to ratify the Protocol, announced two months earlier at the Johannesburg Summit, would allow it to come into effect, finally, in late 2004. However, with the US refusing Kyoto and with many countries increasing their carbon emissions, there was no real progress in the climate negotiations at this meeting.

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Thanks to Kumar Biswas for his contribution (https://kumar-omnibus.blogspot.com/).