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The BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — were first denoted by Goldman Sachs economists in 2001 as economies with very high growth potential for investment (O’Neill 2001). This provides a first indication that, aside from the steep upward trajectories of their economies, there is relatively little binding the BRICs together as a group, generally or in respect of the global climate regime. The BRICs have certainly never acted as a concerted force in international climate change negotiations; instead, their behaviour reveals marked and intriguing differences between four countries with a broadly similar status in the global economy (the 2011 addition to the BRICs ranks, South Africa, will not be discussed in detail but is considered below in the context of climate change negotiations in 2009 and 2010).
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Davenport, D. (2012). BRICs in the Global Climate Regime: Rapidly Industrializing Countries and International Climate Negotiations. In: Bailey, I., Compston, H. (eds) Feeling the Heat. Energy, Climate and the Environment series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374973_3
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