What is it about?
This article discusses the role of China, Russia, India and Brazil in the climate regime. It describes the trajectory of their emissions, of their domestic policies and of their international commitments, and argues that, despite their responsibility in causing the problem, they have been conservative forces in the climate regime.
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China, India, Russia and Brazil, the BRIC countries object of this article, are among the greatest global GHG emitters. They are, together with the United States, the European Union, Japan and Korea, key climate powers - countries that answer for a relevant share of GHG emissions in total global amount, and have human and technological capacity to implement decarbonization. It is the objective of this paper to contribute to this debate by offering an analysis of the decarbonization in the BRIC countries.
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The four countries have been conservative climate players. Their INDCs, for instance, should be a lot more ambitious in order to put the world on track of keeping close to 1.5oC increase in global average temperature by 2100. They all should present more ambitious standings: China and India due to the current weight of their emissions in total global emissions; Russia due to its historical contribution to the increase of GHG concentration in the atmosphere; and Brazil due to its potential of further decreasing emissions and its alleged climate leadership.
Professor Eduardo Viola
University of Brasilia
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This page is a summary of: Wandering decarbonization: the BRIC countries as conservative climate powers, Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, January 2016, FapUNIFESP (SciELO),
DOI: 10.1590/0034-7329201600101.
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