The first contours of what would lead to India's national policy on climate change are likely to be out soon as the much-awaited draft report by the prime minister's council is being finalised by the month-end. According to former environment secretary Pradipto Ghosh, who heads the sub-committee finalising the draft report for the prime minister's high-level council on climate change, "we are busy incorporating important suggestions offered by the members in the last meeting'. The report, Ghosh said, is likely to be finalised by the month-end. He said the national report on climate change, which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said would be ready by June, would be based on the draft report. Singh had set up the high-level group comprising senior ministers and non-governmental experts to chronicle India's share in the global warming and also for framing a domestic strategy to deal with it by June. The council's draft report was expected to be ready before the Bali convention of the UN's inter-governmental climate change committee, in December. However, according to sources, the report was delayed following the last minute objections raised at the December meeting by some members, who had found it too "drab and just a compendium of what happens in various sectors at the moment'. They had suggested that since India, along with China, was expected to take "dramatic' steps to reduce emissions of the Ozone guzzling greenhouse gases to save the earth from warming to the dangerous levels, the draft report should propose "specific affirmative action' for tackling the emissions. Sources said the PM himself had intervened and asked the draft report to be rewritten. India has refused to give any commitment for cutting down on emissions in view of its economic growth. Although India is not among the highest polluters at the moment, the steady rise in its GDP and its vast population are likely to raise the emission levels in the coming years. India has instead asked the developed nations to "subsidise their green technologies' for the developing countries like China, India and Brazil. According to Ghosh, India already has a "vast policy mechanism to deal with the climate change issue on sectoral basis and does not need to specify one single measure as an affirmative action to save the planet from warming.' He said the programmes like water conservation, afforestation and energy efficiency were already saving tonnes of greenhouse gases from being spewed in the earth's atmosphere. The PM's council comprises Foreign Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia, senior government advisors on science and technology and the principal secretary to prime minister, R K Pachauri, chairperson, Tata Energy Research Institute, Former Environment Secretary Prodipto Ghosh, Sunita Narain of the centre for Science and environment and Ratan Tata, chairman, Investment commission.