Environment Ministry Organising 22nd Basic Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change
The
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is organising the
22nd meeting of Brazil, South Africa, India and China, called the BASIC
Group. The meeting is being organized in New Delhi on 6th and 7th April
2016. This is the first meeting of the BASIC Group, after the Paris
Agreement was adopted in December 2015. The meeting is extremely
relevant, as it will help to further consolidate the positions of the
countries and secure the interests of developing countries, before the
196 UNFCCC member countries meet for the first time in May 2016 after
the adoption of the Paris Agreement. It aims to discuss climate change
related issues, including how to take forward the decisions adopted in
the Paris Agreement. The Ministers will reflect and deliberate on
various provisions of the Paris Agreement and related decisions
including Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC),
transparency framework for action and support, matters relating to
global stocktake, progress towards achieving the 20 C goal and the Pre
2020 Actions and review issues.
On the first day of the meeting, negotiators of all four countries will
meet and prepare the groundwork for the Ministerial meeting. On April 7,
the Ministerial meeting will be followed by a press conference. At the
end of the two-day meeting, a Joint Statement will be issued by the
Group of Ministers, highlighting the BASIC group position on the way
forward for the implementation of the Paris Agreement and its decisions.
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Environment, Forest and
Climate Change, Mr. Prakash Javadekar, Special Representative for
Climate Change Affairs of China, Mr. XieZhenhua, Deputy Minister of the
Department of Environmental Affairs of South Africa, Ms. Thomson Barbara
and Ambassador José Antonio Marcondes de Carvalho, Under
Secretary-General for the Environment, Energy, Science and Technology of
the Ministry of External Relations of Brazil will be attending the
meeting, along with other officials of their country.
During the 21st meeting of the BASIC Group held in Beijing, China, in
2015, the Ministers had highlighted the importance of cooperation among
developing countries. They had voiced their support for further
strengthening common positions of developing countries in Paris through
the Group of 77 and China.
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(Release ID :138557)
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