Britain is encouraging world leaders to attend the UN climate deal in Copenhagen in December to ensure its success. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown stated that leaders need to step in to break the negotiation impasse, as progress is not being made quickly enough. Brown also mentioned that he plans to attend the conference and is urging other leaders to do the same. Negotiations between industrialized and developing countries on how to distribute emissions reductions, especially from burning fossil fuels, are causing delays in talks. There is only one week left of formal discussions before the Copenhagen meeting in Barcelona in early November. The two-year UN talks that began in Bali in 2007 are particularly stuck on the issue of how much wealthy countries affected by the recession should reduce carbon emissions by 2020 and how much they should contribute to developing countries to combat global warming. In a move towards action on Monday, Australian Climate Minister Penny Wong announced that the government would reintroduce carbon trading legislation to parliament on Thursday and would push for a vote on the controversial laws before the end of November. The conservative opposition has called for changes to the scheme to prevent a potential second defeat in the upper house, which could prompt Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to call for a snap election. The government, currently leading in opinion polls and potentially benefiting from an election, plans to launch carbon trading in July 2011. This initiative will put a price on greenhouse gas emissions, helping to reduce emissions in a country that is one of the world's highest per capita polluters. The Australian carbon trading scheme will apply to 75 percent of emissions from 1,000 major companies and will be the second domestic trading platform outside of Europe. Companies will be required to obtain a permit for each tonne of carbon they emit. In India, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has suggested that New Delhi should be open to accepting restrictions on the country's increasing carbon emissions without insisting on new finance and technology from wealthy nations. Ramesh emphasized the need for a pragmatic and constructive approach rather than an argumentative one in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, as reported by The Times of India. 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 impact of climate change and believe it is in their best interest to mitigate the effects of extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, rising sea levels, and melting glaciers. The focus of the London talks within the Major Economies Forum is on how to translate various national policy plans into a comprehensive agreement, with countries accounting for 80 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions in attendance. Asad Rehman, a Climate Campaigner for Friends of the Earth, emphasized the need for wealthy countries within the forum to provide additional funding. Copenhagen faces a major issue as the United States, the only developed nation not part of the current Kyoto Protocol, is unlikely to enact carbon-cutting laws before December. In Cape Town, South Africa raised concerns about the significant increase in emissions expected during next year's soccer World Cup, with emissions projected to nearly increase tenfold from the benchmark set in 2006 by Germany, due in part to the addition of air travel. Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica stated that the FIFA 2010 World Cup is expected to have the highest carbon footprint of any major event, despite efforts to make it carbon neutral.