India and China are objecting to the text drafted as a starting point for the first of five meetings preparing for the December meeting in Copenhagen.

The Copenhagen agreement will pick up where the Kyoto treaty left off. This time the US is taking a lead role in negotiations.

India and China are objecting to the fact that the starting is text does not replicate the output of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Bali Action Plan (BAP).

Among issues of substantive concern are "the merging of the key issues of direct financial support and technical transfer from rich countries to poor ones", according to the LiveMint report.

Developing countries including India are concerned that an equitable allocation of atmospheric resource should be linked to any discussions about stabilization of emissions or temperature rise.