India will try to push climate talks forward at a two-day ministerial meeting in November by focusing on winning agreement on sharing clean technologies, a sticky issue that divides rich and poor countries, writes Reuters.

The November 8-9 talks are aimed at clarifying rules on sharing future innovations and existing technologies involving contentious intellectual property rights (IPR) issues.

The talks will come just weeks before a major U.N. climate meeting in Mexico and are an attempt to breathe new life into global climate negotiations after last December's Copenhagen summit fell short of agreeing a treaty.

"We want a common position on technology transfer through partnerships in which poor countries are given access to technology and that they can get help with applying it as well," a senior Indian government official said.

U.N. climate talks are said to have made progress on sharing green technologies, but differences remain.

Developing nations want new technology and billions of dollars in aid to help them move away from fossil fuels, the main source of mankind's planet-warming greenhouse gases, as part of a deal at the year-end U.N. talks in the Mexican resort of Cancun.

"There is probably no problems with future technologies, but it is the sharing of existing technologies that involves looking at issues of IPR," said K. Srinivas, a New Delhi-based independent climate change expert.

"The Delhi meet will aim at having some progress in ironing out the differences over the IPR issues I think."

China will also host an additional round of climate talks in October in Tianjin.

Source: Reuters