Turkey Calls For Adoption Of Resolution To Get Aid Under Green Climate Fund - Minister
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published December 12, 2018 | 12:42 AM
KATOWICE (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 12th December, 2018) Turkey calls for the adoption of a resolution that will grant Ankara access to the financial assistance under the Green Climate Fund at the 24th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24), Turkish Minister of Environment and Urbanization Murat Kurum said on Tuesday.
COP24 is taking place on December 2-14 in the Polish city of Katowice. The main goal of the conference participants is to discuss ways of implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement.
"Our biggest expectation is that Turkey enjoys a fair position under the climate system and particularly that a resolution is taken here in Poland to ensure that Turkey has access to financial assistance under the Green Climate Fund, in particular. We have shown resilience and we have made a lot of compromises for the smooth integration and organization of the 24 Conference of the Parties.
We expect you to exert such a compromising effort," Kurum said at the COP24 on Tuesday.
The minister went on to say that Ankara had asked the United Nations to support its bid to host COP26 in 2020.
"We have officially launched an application to host the 26th edition of the Conference of the Parties to be held in 2020 and we expect assistance from the United Nations in this respect," Kurum noted.
The UN Green Climate Fund was set up by 194 nations in 2010 to support developing countries in their efforts to tackle climate change. It was given a new role after the 2015 Paris agreement was reached to curb carbon emissions and is now used to mobilize resources need to keep global temperatures from rising.
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