27th BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change was held in New Delhi.
It has urged the advanced countries to enhance their support to developing nations in effectively implementing the Paris Agreement to combat climate change.
This comes ahead of the UN Conference of Parties (COP) scheduled to be held in December 2018 in Katowice, Poland.
Brazil will host the next BASIC meeting in 2019.
BASIC countries are a bloc (geopolitical alliance) of four large newly industrialized countries – Brazil, South Africa, India and China.