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NEW DELHI (AFP) – Environment ministers from Brazil, South Africa, India and China said on Sunday that talks in New Delhi had further cemented their alliance following the Copenhagen climate change summit.
The four emerging economies -- a key bloc within troubled negotiations on how to tackle global warming -- lobbied successfully at the Copenhagen meeting in December against binding emissions caps.
Speaking after Sunday's talks, Indian environment minister Jairam Ramesh said the group -- known by the acronym BASIC -- had pledged to strengthen its unified stance but added it "seeks consensus with developed countries."
"We will deepen our co-operation," Ramesh said, praising the "crucial role" the four countries had played in creating the widely criticised Copenhagen Accord.
The accord was a non-binding document crafted by a small group of countries, including the BASIC nations, on the final day of the talks as the meeting faced collapse.
Sunday's meeting came ahead of a January 31 deadline for countries to say if they intended to be "associated" with the Copenhagen outcome or what sort of measures they envisaged taking.
As recriminations continue over December's summit, the United Nations' climate change forum is due to resume shortly with a ministerial-level meeting planned in Mexico at the end of the year.
The four ministers meeting in Delhi also issued a joint statement calling for rapid distribution of the ten billion dollars that wealthy countries pledged for tackling climate change in the developing world during 2010.
The money must be made available at once "as proof of their commitment to urgently address the global challenge of climate change," the ministers said.
The Copenhagen Accord set a broad goal of limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) but did not specify the staging points for achieving this goal or a year by which greenhouse gas emissions should peak.
Instead, countries are being urged to identify what actions they intend to take, either as binding curbs on emissions or voluntary action. Twenty-eight billion dollars in aid have been pledged by rich countries for 2010-2012.
Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, the head of the UN's climate science panel, R.K. Pachauri, expressed hope that the BASIC nations would soon offer some chance of a binding pact in the future.
Many emerging nations say they will not allow emissions targets to be imposed at the cost of economic development.