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The journal has compiled “climate change
report cards” assessing how nations around the world states’ have responded to the climate crisis. Turkey is one of 196 signatories of the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement. Thus, it agreed to participate in reducing carbon emissions
to a level that would keep the global rise in temperature to 2 degrees Celsius above pre- industrial levels.
But things did not go smoothly thereafter. The erdogan administration subsequently refused to ratify the agreement until its status under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was changed from “develop” to “developing” nation.
Turkey joined the UNFCC in 1992. But its status as a developed nation bars it from obtaining funding from the convention.
Another setback is that Turkey, which is dependent on oil and gas imports, is moving ahead with a huge expansion of coal-fired plants in its drive to establish energy self- sufficiency, National geographic said. The country is constructing 80 new power plants. It is even expanding the Afsin-elbistan plant in southern Turkey to make it the world’s
largest coal-fired plant.
Ahval, meanwhile, on September 25
reported the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) website as stating that in May Turkey’s energy Ministry held tenders to build coal plants, “in strong contrast to the need to reduce the use of coal in electricity globally by two thirds over 2020-2030 and to zero by 2050”.
CAT described Turkey’s response to the climate crisis as “critically insufficient”.
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