BRICS Nations Join Hands to Save Envornmnt

The environmental ministers of the BRICS nations meet and agreed to mutual cooperation to helping reduce air and water pollution. As well as these agreements, the BRICS nations also vowed to more efficiently manage liquid, and solid waste. These countries also vowed to the conversation of ecological biodiversity. The environmental ministers of these countries called on the rest of the world to follow their example as to dealing with environmental issues facing our planet.

BRICS has an environmental interest

Environment and geographical location have an impact on climate which may indirectly drive international trade and business to preferred global locations.   BRICS understands that climate change is a serious concern.   

Serous enough that Union Environment Minister Anil Dave stated in a fall conference that “Sudden remedies for climate change are not possible. In the longer run, we see unpredictable changes in atmosphere, especially in the behavior of the sea, crop patterns.”  

He continued such that “I am happy to inform you that we have agreed that each and every water body or each and every river of the country must be preserved properly so that safe, clean drinking water should be available to the entire society.”

These words signify that BRICS is committed to establish a standard for innovations, knowledge sharing and capacity building of technical institutions and undertake ownership in areas environmental interest.  

 

BRICS to set up joint working group for environment issues:
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/BRICS-to-set-up-joint-working-group-for-environment-issues/article14983770.ece

Elbrus CPUs are designed to replace Intel and AMD computer processors.  It has been reported that Russia is trying to challenge the US monopoly on the global IT market. However, Russia’s IT companies have not had a stellar performance so far.

To take on the Americans, the Russian Federation has formed BRICS ICT, an IT-oriented wing of BRICS, the association of five major emerging national economies, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

I beg to wonder if that is why Intel decided a couple days ago to complete its $7 billion Chandler Arizona plant that is started in 2014...


https://financialtribune.com/articles/economy-sci-tech/57960/russia-to-sell-computer-processors-to-iran

Next week Chinese President Xi Jinping will be arriving in Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum. He is also expected to meet with the United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG) and the World Health Organization (WHO). He will be the first Chinese leader to meet with the UN.  The UN Director General Michael Moller said he is looking forward to increased cooperation with China on global challenges. He said social inequalities, climate change are some of the issues facing the world today, stating that the international community needs to show solidarity and work collectively to find solutions.
The Chinese government said Xi's attending would emphasize Beijing's support for multilateralism, which is a core concept of the founding ideal for the BRIC bloc. Global cooperation and free trade.



http://thebricspost.com/un-to-increase-cooperation-with-china/#.WJ2eLIWcHdc

The five ‘BRICS’ nations have a combined nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $16.6 trillion (US dollars), equivalent to approximately 22% of the gross world product.  The World Bank predicts BRICS growth to pick up 5.3% in 2017.  This is all inviting to investors and economists.

BRICS History and possible expansion

BRICS originally started as BRIC in 2001, with all the current countries except South Africa.

South Africa joined in 2010.  All members belong to the G20 or the major 20 economies of the world.

Potential for addition of new countries: Afghanistan, Indonesia, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Nigeria, Sudan, Syria, Bangladesh, and Greece have all shown interest in joining BRICS.

Welcome to the new BRICS Blog. To give a little explanation of what the BRICS stands for it is an acronym for five major emerging economic countries.  Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Originally there where only four countries and in 2010 South Africa was added.
A few facts of the BRICS countries:
Combined they represent over 3.6 billion people.
They have a combined nominal GDP of $16.6 trillion which is roughly 22% of the gross World Product!
The growth in this area has been steady at 3.9% in 2015, 4.6% in 2016 and an expect growth of 5.3% in 2017.