New BRICS Member Climate Policy: Challenges and Opportunities
... global climate policy. Even before its expansion, the association accounted for just under half of global carbon dioxide emissions (~47%). With the addition of Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Ethiopia in 2024, this figure exceeded 50% (51.76%). As BRICS now represents more than 45%6 of the world’s population and its combined GDP makes up over a quarter of the global total (~27%), it becomes clear that the success of the global fight against climate change largely depends on this set of countries, as the mitigation ...