In a joint declaration on the seventeenth BRICS Summit on Sunday, in addition they expressed their dedication to stay united within the pursuit of the aim and objectives of the Paris Settlement.
The joint declaration said, “We stress our dedication to uphold multilateralism as essential to deal with challenges threatening our shared planet and future comparable to local weather change. We resolve to stay united within the pursuit of the aim and objectives of the Paris Settlement and the goals of the UNFCCC and name on all nations to uphold their current dedication
as Events to the UNFCCC and its Paris Settlement and to take care of and scale up their effort to fight local weather change.
“We additional reaffirm our steadfast dedication, in pursuit of the target of UNFCCC, to deal with local weather change by strengthening the total and efficient implementation of the Paris Settlement, together with its provisions associated to mitigation, adaptation and the availability of technique of implementation to creating nations, reflecting fairness and the precept of widespread however differentiated duties and respective capabilities, in gentle of various nationwide circumstances,” the declaration mentioned.
“On this regard, we categorical our full assist to the Presidency of the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC) COP-30, which can happen within the metropolis of Belem, in Brazil, highlighting the significance of motion and cooperation on all pillars of the UNFCCC as relevant contemplating every nation's membership and commitments thereunder. We additionally underscore our full dedication to a profitable COP30 that can catalize progress in implementing the UNFCCC and its Paris Settlement. We welcome India's Candidacy to host COP 33 in 2028,” it added. The leaders of BRICS nations name for a strengthened international response to local weather change, within the context of sustainable growth and poverty eradication. They endorsed the BRICS Local weather Management Agenda as an announcement of their resolve to train collective management by mutual empowerment, by advancing options that assist BRICS growth wants and priorities, whereas accelerating motion and enhancing cooperation in the direction of the total implementation of the UNFCCC and its Paris Settlement.They harassed that this final result demonstrates that multilateralism and International South cooperation can form a extra inclusive and sustainable governance for a greater future.
BRICS nations underscored the essential function of all varieties of forests. The joint declaration said, “We underscore the essential function of all varieties of forests, together with tropical forests, for conserving biodiversity, preserving water basins and soils and offering timber and non-timber forest merchandise of excessive worth for financial sectors, regulating hydrological cycles, in addition to combatting desertification and serving as important carbon sinks.”
“We additionally pay attention to the United for Our Forests initiative, which promotes the conservation, sustainable administration, and restoration of those important tropical ecosystems. Whereas appreciating the efforts of our nations to protect uncommon species and noting the excessive vulnerability of huge cats, we pay attention to the Republic of India's initiative to create a world Massive Cats Alliance and encourage BRICS nations to work collectively to the conservation of huge cats,” it added.
The leaders of BRICS nations emphasised the pressing must reform the governance of the International Surroundings Facility (GEF) to make sure extra balanced and equitable illustration for creating nations, according to the worth of pure capital that these nations uphold.
In addition they expressed assist for the simplification of procedures and the facilitation of entry to sources, and the participation of these immediately concerned within the conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems, comparable to Indigenous peoples and native communities, together with by improved voice and vote mechanisms and equitable entry to decision-making by creating nations.
The joint declaration said, “We commend Brazil's BRICS Chairship in 2025 and categorical our gratitude to the federal government and other people of Brazil for holding the XVII BRICS Summit within the metropolis of Rio de Janeiro.” The leaders additionally expressed full assist for India's BRICS Chairship in 2026 and the holding of the 18th BRICS Summit in India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, together with different leaders, attended the seventeenth BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sunday. Brazil assumed the BRICS Chairship on January 1, 2025, with the theme ‘Strengthening International South Cooperation for Extra Inclusive and Sustainable Governance'.
