Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who will attend the summit as a special invitee, will have separate meetings with leaders of China, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico, the other four guests, before their meeting with G8 leaders.
Subsequently, the Prime Minister will articulate developing countries' stand to press for "common and differentiated responsibility" to deal with climate change and sustainable development, official sources said.
India would utilise the opportunity to send a clear-cut message to the industrialised nations that in an era of globalisation everybody should avoid any kind of protectionist measures in the shape of non-tariff barriers.
India will also demand that the protection of intellectual property rights be relaxed for use of cleaner technology along the lines of the concessions given for dealing with HIV/AIDS menace.
Singh will have separate meetings with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac during the day, where issues of common concern are expected to figure.
Leaders from the eight leading industrialised countries -- the US, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Russia and the UK -- and four special invitees will deliberate on contentious issues like climate change, pulling Africa out of debt trap and global trade.
Leading the developing countries for mobilisation of clean energy sources, India will present a slew of measures seeking to link international programmes in the renewables sector.
Prime on the country's agenda at the G-8 summit would be looking for collaborations in the area of carbon capture, development of low cost solar photovoltaics and energy storage.
Following a workshop by energy experts of G-8 and G-5 nations at Oxford on May 11 and 12, the country is also proposing joint ventures in bio-energy, including biomass and biogas-based power generation, built-in environment and distributed generation, particularly in India and China.
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