BRICS+ and south-south cooperation challenged by the climate emergency

Can BRICS+ play a transformative role in South-South cooperation, particularly in the field of climate change? Despite its membership heterogeneity, the BRICS+ grouping has become a central actor in the field of international development cooperation in an attempt both to craft a symbolic regime that challenges norms generated within a Western liberal global order and to implement economic decisions that need to respond to the climate emergency within a rejuvenated development agenda. Written from a Brazilian perspective, this paper explores key opportunities and contradictions in this endeavour, considering national assets and multilateral responses to the climate emergency within BRICS+.