Where was 26th BASIC Ministerial meeting of Environment Ministers held?
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1) Brazil
2)South Africa
3)India
4)china
answer
1) Brazil
Other details
26th BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change, was held in Durban on 20th May 2018
The meeting was chaired by South Africa’s Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa.
The meeting was attended by Michal Kurtyka of Poland, who will be the next president of Conference of Parties (COP-24)
The United Nations Climate Change Conferences are yearly conferences held in the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
They serve as the formal meeting of the UNFCCC Parties (Conference of the Parties, COP) to assess progress in dealing with climate change, and beginning in the mid-1990s, to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol to establish legally binding obligations for developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
From 2005 the Conferences have also served as the "Conference of the Parties Serving as the Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol" (CMP)
The BASIC countries are a bloc of four large newly industrialized countries – Brazil, South Africa, India and China – formed by an agreement on 28 November 2009.
The four committed to act jointly at the Copenhagen climate summit,
COP 24 is expected to be held on 3-14 December 2018 in Katowice, Poland.
Options
1) Brazil
2)South Africa
3)India
4)china
answer
1) Brazil
Other details
26th BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change, was held in Durban on 20th May 2018
The meeting was chaired by South Africa’s Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa.
The meeting was attended by Michal Kurtyka of Poland, who will be the next president of Conference of Parties (COP-24)
The United Nations Climate Change Conferences are yearly conferences held in the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
They serve as the formal meeting of the UNFCCC Parties (Conference of the Parties, COP) to assess progress in dealing with climate change, and beginning in the mid-1990s, to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol to establish legally binding obligations for developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
From 2005 the Conferences have also served as the "Conference of the Parties Serving as the Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol" (CMP)
The BASIC countries are a bloc of four large newly industrialized countries – Brazil, South Africa, India and China – formed by an agreement on 28 November 2009.
The four committed to act jointly at the Copenhagen climate summit,
COP 24 is expected to be held on 3-14 December 2018 in Katowice, Poland.
