Britain is encouraging world leaders to attend the UN climate deal conference in Copenhagen in person to ensure its success. Australian and Indian representatives discussed strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown emphasized the need for leaders to directly engage in negotiations to overcome the current impasse and achieve a successful outcome at the upcoming conference in Denmark. He expressed his commitment to attend the event and urged others to do the same. Negotiations between industrialized and developing countries on how to allocate emissions reductions are currently stalled. There is only one week of formal talks left before the Copenhagen summit, with discussions having started in Bali in 2007. The main points of contention are the size of carbon cuts that wealthy countries should make by 2020, and the financial support they should provide to developing nations for combating climate change. In a recent development, Australian Climate Minister Penny Wong announced that carbon trade legislation will be brought back to parliament for a vote before the end of November. The conservative opposition has called for revisions to the scheme to avoid a potential snap election. The government, which is leading in opinion polls and stands to gain from an election, plans to implement carbon trading starting in July 2011. This initiative will place a price on greenhouse gas emissions, helping to reduce emissions in one of the world's highest per capita polluting countries. The Australian program will apply to 75 percent of emissions from 1,000 major companies and will be the second trading platform of its kind outside of Europe. Companies will be required to obtain a permit for each ton of carbon they release. In India, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is reportedly advocating for New Delhi to agree to limits on the country's increasing carbon emissions without insisting on new financial and technological assistance from wealthier nations. Ramesh emphasized the importance of being practical and positive in approach, rather than confrontational and argumentative. In an interview with Reuters on Friday, Ramesh indicated a readiness to make concessions in order to secure a deal. India, China, and other large developing nations are concerned about the potential impacts of climate change, such as extreme droughts, floods, rising sea levels, and melting glaciers that supply major rivers. The London discussions at the Major Economies Forum are centered on how to transform a variety of national policy plans, ranging from China to the United States, into an agreement. The countries participating in the forum are responsible for 80 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Asad Rehman, Climate Campaigner for Friends of the Earth, emphasized the need for wealthy countries in the Major Economies Forum to promptly provide additional funding. A major issue for Copenhagen is that the United States, the only developed nation not included in the current Kyoto Protocol for reducing emissions, is unlikely to enact laws to cut carbon emissions by December. In Cape Town, South Africa highlighted a significant source of increasing emissions - the upcoming soccer World Cup in 2010. Emissions are projected to increase nearly ten times compared to a benchmark set in 2006 by Germany, in part due to the inclusion of air travel in the calculation. Minister Buyelwa Sonjica of Water and Environmental Affairs stated that the FIFA 2010 World Cup is expected to have the largest carbon footprint of any major event, despite efforts to achieve carbon neutrality.