The Turkish Parliament ratified unanimously Wednesday night, this agreement adopted in 2016 was to limit the temperature increase to below 2 ° C. The COP26 on climate change will open in late October in Glasgow.
Le Monde with AFP
The Turkish parliament ratified Wednesday, October 6 evening unanimously the Paris agreement on climate, according to the parliamentary channel that was broadcasting the live vote, thus following the commitment of its President to the General Assembly of the United Nations last month.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan had announced this decision at the end September in New York, making his country the 191 th to ratify the agreement that would allow, when it was adopted in 2016 to limit the rise average temperature on the planet at 2 ° C and, if possible, at 1.5 ° C.
This ratification comes to three weeks of world climate conference under the auspices of the United Nations (COP26), which will open in late October in Glasgow (UK).
Turkey signed the agreement in Paris in 2016. It is one of the last major countries emitters of greenhouse ratify the text. Lacking even Iran, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Ethiopia.
Mr. Erdogan has so far justified its abstention by making a better sharing of the burden, in terms of reducing emissions. According to Ankara, efforts must be differentiated between developed countries category to which Turkey still belongs.
150% of emissions since 1990
Net issuance of Turkey greenhouse gases have increased over 150% since 1990, according to the Turkish official figures.
But the climate issue was brutally imposed in the country this summer, after a series of extreme weather events, including forest fires on the Mediterranean coast and flooding in the north, who made a hundred victims and caused significant damage.
Turkey is also hit by persistent drought, already causing some farmers to abandon their lands and others to turn to new lower water crops.
Environmentalists are alarmed by the will of Ankara to strengthen its energy production from coal, while Turkey officially plans to cut 21% of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
Based on the current commitments of the member states of the Paris Agreement, “the world is on the disastrous path of 2.7 ° C,” recently warned the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, stressing that “if we do not change our path together, there is a risk of failure of the COP26” in Glasgow. The conference will be held in Scotland from October 31 to November 12.
A survey in April showed that three quarters of Turks were aware of climate change. Among the main consequences cited by respondents. Multiplication of extreme weather events, air pollution and rising food prices, hot topic in a country affected by inflation