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This paper assesses the role of the BASIC countries — Brazil, South Africa, India, and China — in UN climate change negotiations. The paper explores the formation and evolution of the group, and focuses on how the four major developing countries of China, India, Brazil, and South Africa have coordinated their positions and acted jointly to achieve an agreed outcome with other players in the recent UN Climate Change Conferences in Copenhagen and Cancun, based on an analysis of their country profiles and negotiation positions on a wide range of climate issues. The paper argues that the emergence of the BASIC Group is a reflection of the ongoing power shift from EU–US agreement to BASIC–US compromise in UN climate negotiations since the early 1990s. The rise of BASIC also has its roots in recent global market dynamics and further reflects the power transformation in the economic dimension of the international system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes Brazil's role in the negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Brazil has a large stake in the climate change issue because some of its national economic, social, and security interests are contingent on the growth of its energy sector and development of the Amazon region. Section one provides an overview of the ongoing climate change negotiations. Section two provides background on Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions, which stem primarily from deforestation of the Amazon. Section three describes Brazil's interests and negotiating positions with respect to three key issues: (a) emissions reduction responsibilities; (b) protocol mechanisms; and (c) land-use change and forestry. The concluding section will then assess Brazil's contributions in terms of both achieving an accord that will slow global warming and promoting Brazilian national interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the failure of the climate change convention in The Hague, Netherlands in November 2000. Factors that affected the failure of the convention; Issues concerning the 1992 Earth Summit agreement in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the proposed 1997 Kyoto Protocol; Consequences of the negotiation results.

Information on the 3rd International Symposium on "Effects of climate change on the world's oceans" held in Santos, Brazil from March 23-27, 2015 is presented. Topics discussed include the focus on Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) and Brazilian Research on Ocean Acidification (BrOA), the enhancement of communication, and the standardization of data management procedure.