I don't blame them for it, necessarily. Sanctioned and attacked by the west from every direction, they probably need to make these alliances and trade arrangements to avoid going under. But the climate doesn't care about geopolitics. Yes it's already here - largely due to emissions from the industrialised western economies (lately outsourced to China and others), but what happens now decides whether we're 'only' faced with mass death and refugee movements the likes of which have never been seen, or outright go extinct taking much of the biosphere with us. Pushing for a new arctic trade route in this context is insane, whoever does it, and just another sign of the sickness of the dominant culture, constantly pushing for maximum exploitation of people and planet no matter which regional entity is leading the charge at any particular moment.

Agreed net zero has failed - or rather done what it was designed to do, ie: push the fiction that market-based solutions could solve problems caused by the market. But I don't think BRICS will do any better, and fully expect the push for coal, fracked nat gas, 'renewables' (sic) and other calamities to come increasingly from those countries in the not-too-distant future with the decline of oil accelerating. How else are they going to power all those icebreakers and massive container ships steaming around the globe? At least they might be honest about it, I suppose...

cheers,
I