New BRICS Member Climate Policy: Challenges and Opportunities

... that the success of the global fight against climate change largely depends on this set of countries, as the mitigation problem cannot be solved without decarbonizing BRICS economies. While the five new BRICS members have very different approaches to climate policy, global climate change poses substantial economic, political and social challenges both for them and for other countries worldwide. Four of the new members are classified as developing countries (with Ethiopia being the only least developed country), and three ...