Poor countries will receive technical and financial support from the Basic group (formed by Brazil, South Africa, India and China) for actions toward the mitigation and adaptation to climate change. According to the Brazilian minister of the Environment, Carlos Minc, who attended the group's meeting this Sunday (January 24), in New Delhi (India), the Basic came to a cooperation agreement to expand technology transfer and to create a fund to support developing countries.
"Basic was a place for political negotiation and diplomacy. Now, we're starting the cooperation, especially between the group and developing countries", said Minc. The group will support partnerships of technical assistance for the appropriate use of new technologies for adaptation and mitigation. But the countries of Basic have already been helping many poor nations around the world.
Brazil, for example, helps African and Latin American countries to do the monitoring of their forests, with the satellites of the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe). This initiative allows those countries to have access to resources from the Redd (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) system. In March, Brazil will hold, in Indonesia, training workshops on mechanisms to enable poor countries receiving resources from Redd.
During the meeting, the group supported the Brazilian proposal to create a fund to help poor nations in adaptation actions to climate change. Minc said that the fund's resources will be set by the presidents and prime ministers of the countries of Basic.
The Basic group was strengthened during the COP-15 with the role assumed in the climate debate. The group drafted a letter, addressed to the secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, suggesting that it holds, this year, another five rounds of international talks - culminating in the COP-16, in December, in Mexico.
The Basic has scheduled three meetings for 2010. The next is scheduled for the last week of April, in South Africa. The group will also meet with other G77 members (group of developing countries). According to minister Carlos Minc, the Basic will also meet with representatives from the United States, from the European Union and from other groups to address global climate agreements.
The group will also meet with representatives from Mexico, which will host the COP-16, to ensure that the same thing that happened at COP-15 does not reoccur. Minc said that, in Denmark, several countries, especially those suffering from the effects of climate change, were not heard by the UN Convention.
The countries of the Basic also pledged to sign, until January 31, the voluntary targets for the reduction of greenhouse gases emissions presented at COP-15, in Copenhagen. The signing of the so-called "Copenhagen Accord" will happen on the same day, in the four countries. The Brazilian goal is to reduce emissions between 36% and 39% by 2020.
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