Turkey sharpens climate policy at UN talks, While Europe closes Nuclear plants... Turkey starts building them.

Turkey sharpens climate policy at UN talks, While Europe closes Nuclear plants... Turkey starts building them. (Taz).

Turkey expected UN climate talks this week to make “substantial progress” toward reaching a global pact, with it part of the international effort to curb climate change, its head of delegation told The Anadolu Agency (AA).
Turkey will submit “nationally determined” plans by next March to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Mehmet Emin Birpinar, Deputy Undersecretary in the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization confirmed Monday.

But any new deal must not consider it a “developed country,” despite its membership of a grouping of industrialized nations, which would unfairly bind it to bear more of the burden, he said.

“As a country with no historical responsibility in climate change, we want this new regime to have enough flexibility to reflect our special circumstances and sustainable development needs,” said the interim chief of the 60-strong delegation, before Environment Minister Idris Güllüce took over as ministers arrived Tuesday.


Turkey is stepping up its efforts to reduce emissions, which have multiplied by a factor of two-and-a-half since 1990 as its population and economy have surged.

Greenhouse gas emissions rose from 180 million tons of carbon dioxide in 1990 to 439 million in 2012, according to the national statistics agency TURKSTAT.

Its population grew by more than a third to 75.6 million in the same period, while the economy expanded by 240 percent to $1.4 trillion in purchasing power parity terms between 2000 and 2013.

To combat this rise, Turkey will boost renewable energy up to 30 percent of production by 2023, investing in wind, solar and nuclear sources, Birpinar said.

Hmmm....Europe is digging it's own grave with too costly 'green Energy' sending investors to countries like Turkey ...MADNESS! I Wonder sometimes if the whole European parliament is brain dead.