{"id":44985,"date":"2021-10-06T22:08:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=44985"},"modified":"2021-10-08T14:15:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T13:15:17","slug":"turkey-ratifies-paris-agreement-approving-2053-net-zero-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2021\/10\/06\/turkey-ratifies-paris-agreement-approving-2053-net-zero-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey ratifies the Paris Agreement after approving a 2053 net zero goal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turkey’s parliament ratified the Paris Agreement on Wednesday, more than five year after it signed the treaty.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

The move comes days after the government’s cabinet approved a goal to reach net zero emissions by 2053.<\/p>\n

Ozlem Katisoz from Climate Action Network Europe told Climate Home News: “A new era begins. It’s a very positive development. We have a foundation now for ambitious climate action.”<\/p>\n

Turkey’s ratification means just five countries<\/a> have yet to ratify the agreement – Iran, Iraq, Eritrea, Libya and Yemen.<\/p>\n

But in a declaration<\/a> approved by lawmakers alongside the text of the Paris climate treaty, Turkey unilaterally declared that it would implement the accord “as a developing country” despite its developed country status in the UN climate convention.<\/p>\n

The dispute over Turkey’s status is the reason it held out formally endorsing the agreement. Although it signed up to the climate convention as a developed nation, the government has repeatedly argued that it is a developing country and therefore should be allowed to access climate finance – a privilege of the status.<\/p>\n