Ministers of China, Brazil and South Africa to hold closed-door talks with Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar and team The ministers of China, Brazil and South Africa, along with their respective climate change negotiators, will hold closed-door talks with Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar and his team on August 7-8. This meeting of BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) ministers will strategies for the upcoming rounds of climate negotiations that will lead to the global 2015 agreement.

BASIC grouping has become a prominent voice of emerging economies at the UN climate talks and is seen as one of the important country blocks that hold influence at the negotiations, besides the European Union and the United States. Sources in the government said the talks would focus on how to push the developed countries to make the 2015 agreement a holistic one, covering not just mitigation but also adaptation, finance and technology. The US and EU have been insisting that the key agreement be limited to mitigation, with other pillars of the talks being addressed in detail later

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