Climate change in Turkey

As Turkey has been under the deep effects of drought due to global warming and misuse of existent water sources, a new climate report submitted to the Turkish Parliament emphasizes that the situation might worsen over time.

The European Union on Sept. 22 welcomed Turkey's plan to ratify Paris Agreement on climate change next month.

"Very welcome step that Turkey is ready to ratify the #ParisAgreement on climate," Frans Timmermans, the European Commission's executive vice president for the European Green Deal, said on Twitter.

The Natural Gas Futures Market (NFM) will enable market participants to predict prices and minimize risks against price fluctuations, Turkey's Deputy Energy and Natural Resources Minister and Chairman of EXIST Abdullah Tancan, told Anadolu Agency.

The European Commission's executive vice president for the European Green Deal and Turkish minister of environment and urbanization on Sept. 16 held the first EU-Turkey high-level dialogue on climate change.

The officials discussed the necessary steps to fight the devastating effects of climate change and to significantly cut emissions by 2050.

U.S.-based multinational banking and financial services company JP Morgan on Sept. 1 revised its estimate for Turkey's economic growth for 2021 from 6.8 percent to 8.4 percent.

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According to a report published by the firm, the Turkish economy continued to grow "at full speed thanks to robust domestic demand and surging export demand in the second quarter."

Turkey's energy import bill increased by 64 percent to $3.95 billion in July this year compared to the same month last year, according to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) on Aug. 31.

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The overall energy import bill soared last month due to an increase in the country's industrial production.

With forest fires and flood disasters that hit various parts of the country recently causing massive destruction, six out of 10 people now believe that climate change poses a grave danger to both them and the country as much as the coronavirus pandemic.

Turkey's energy import bill increased by 131 percent to $3.63 billion in June this year compared to the same month last year, according to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) on July 30.

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The overall energy import bill soared last month due to an increase in the country's industrial production.

The share of wind and solar electricity generation in Turkey in the first half of the year has steadily grown to 12.9 percent, ranking Turkey 17th among European countries, a new report from Ember, a London-based think tank said 

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Turkey's Environment and Urbanization Minister Murat Kurum has urged the U.S. envoy for climate to exclude Turkey from the Annex-I list of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and receive a fair financial support to implement the convention.