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On Friday, ministers from Brazil, India, South Africa and China will meet in New Delhi for another round of 'coordinating' talks

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Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

Climate change negotiations are tricky. Like-minded countries can “agree" on a coordinated position in the morning only to give it up by evening after a couple of carrots are thrown at them by rich nations. Such tactics were on display at the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009.

On Friday, ministers from Brazil, India, South Africa and China (BASIC) will meet in New Delhi for another round of “coordinating" talks.

BASIC is under pressure from two poles: rich countries that want to pass the burden of limiting emissions onto emerging economies and a large and diverse set of ecologically troubled nations. As climate change gathers pace, these countries will gang up against BASIC. The group on its own is too small to act as a countervailing force.

One strategy is to expand the group by including other newly emerging countries that need economic growth to end mass poverty. Safety against future pressures lies in forming a bigger bloc.

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Published: 08 Aug 2014, 12:17 AM IST
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