Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture: A BRICS Approach for Re-shaping Global Climate Governance

The agricultural sector is one of the human activities responsible for the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. At the same time, it is one of the activities most severely affected by the impacts of climate changenatural resources. According to FAO, global emissions in 2018 due to agriculture were 9.3 billion tons of CO2 equivalent. BRICSBRICS produces about a third of the global agriculture output, and are vulnerable to climate changeclimate change effects, particularly in the field of agricultural productivity, and food security. Addressing climate change in the context of pandemics, population growthpopulation growth, and demands for economic developmenteconomic development is one of the BRICS’ biggest challengeschallenges. Despite their recognition, since the first summit, on promoting dialogue in order to deal with climate change, as well as their efforts and commitment to the values of green development through the creation of the NDB, few initiatives have been taken in terms of global climate governance. Based on an analysis of the BRICS’ agriculture and related landland-use emissions, this paper aims at examining the capacity of the BRICS to re-shape global climate governance and explore areas for cooperationcooperation, focusing on their capacity to collaborate in developing adaptive agricultural techniques to improve agricultural efficiency and sustainability.