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Emerging Powers in the Climate Negotiations: Shifting Identity Conceptions
The BASIC countries (Brazil, China, India, South Africa) have played a major role in recent climate negotiations. We
argue that a focus on identities—both their individual national identities as emerging powers and their joint identity as the BASIC coalition of emerging powers—is useful for understanding the coalition’s negotiation stances and the larger negotiation dynamics between 2009 and 2011. BASIC countries maintain a hard defining line between themselves and
developed states in terms of their climate obligations but accept some differentiation between themselves and other developing countries, thus adding a destabilizing third category of countries to the climate negotiations.
Keywords climate change, emerging powers, international negotiations
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