Rising Powers: The Evolving Role of BASIC Countries

The article analyzes how Brazil, South Africa, India, and China formed the BASIC group to coordinate on climate change and seek alternative growth pathways due to the realization that global resources are insufficient to replicate the development models of industrialized nations.

• The BASIC group—comprising Brazil, South Africa, India, and China—formed to coordinate on climate change, a move that cannot be explained solely by shared climate policy interests but is linked to their status as increasingly powerful countries.
• The strategizing of BASIC countries as a group of emerging economies, despite their traditional alignment with the G77, is driven by the recognition that global resource scarcity prevents them from following the development pathways used by industrialized countries.
• Future resource scarcities, caused by exponential growth in populations, economic activity, and resource use, have begun to impact the positions these fast-growing developing countries take during international climate change negotiations.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2013). Rising Powers: The Evolving Role of BASIC Countries. https://www.sei.org/publications/rising-powers-the-evolving-role-of-basic-countries/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Rising Powers: The Evolving Role of BASIC Countries. 2013. https://www.sei.org/publications/rising-powers-the-evolving-role-of-basic-countries/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Stockholm Environment Institute |title=Rising Powers: The Evolving Role of BASIC Countries |date=6 September 2013 |url=https://www.sei.org/publications/rising-powers-the-evolving-role-of-basic-countries/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2013rising, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Rising Powers: The Evolving Role of BASIC Countries}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2013}, month = sep, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/rising-powers-the-evolving-role-of-basic-countries/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }