India is likely to submit its plans to tackle climate change, including steps to curb the amount of carbon pollution, in September. Tuesday was the first informal deadline for ?countries that are able to do so? to file their pledges to combat climate change. All countries have agreed to put forward their plans ahead of the crucial Paris meet in December. So far, the European Union, the US, Switzerland, Norway and Mexico have sent in their plans to the UN climate secretariat. Before the UN-sponsored climate change negotiations in Lima in December, India had said it would not submit its climate change plans before June. In February, environment minister Prakash Javadekar announced that India would tender its pledges in June.

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