BRICS Climate Cooperation in the Post-Paris Agreement Era

As representatives of emerging economies, BRICS countries are increasingly prominent in global governance. The rapid economic development of BRICS countries is accompanied by a significant increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and BRICS countries are paying increasing attention to climate change issues and actively participating in the construction of the international climate regime. The Paris Agreement was a historic breakthrough in international climate negotiations, and since then BRICS countries have strengthened multilateral and bilateral cooperation in energy efficiency, agricultural emission reduction and climate governance financing. Due to the constraints of technology, cooperation mechanism construction, financing, and other objective conditions, BRICS countries still face some challenges to further advance the global climate governance agenda with their group power in the short term. Whether BRICS countries can further advance the global climate governance agenda as a group in the post-Paris Agreement era depends on whether they can improve energy efficiency and optimize their energy mix, and whether they can deepen cooperation in agricultural emission reduction and climate finance. BRICS countries need to continue to promote clean energy development and low-carbon economic transformation, deepen the potential of climate cooperation in agricultural emission reduction, and give full play to the climate financing role of the New Development Bank, so as to further enhance the level of climate cooperation. At the same time, BRICS countries can widely involve developing countries in climate governance cooperation and strengthen dialogue and exchanges with other countries, so as to promote global climate governance in the post-Paris Agreement era.