Turkey’s current status is in limbo, where countries have offered it an exemption from having to pay financial contributions, but it officially remains part of the group of developed nations.
Turkey’s ratification statement said it would implement the Paris deal “as a developing country.” But one of the people who described the deal with the European governments and banks said Turkey’s status under the convention would not change as part of the deal they had struck with Ankara.
Germany had floated a deal with Turkey as far back as 2017, but with the U.S. at that point shaping to withdraw from the Paris deal, Erdoğan was not subject to the pressure from major powers he has felt in the run-up to the COP26 climate talks, which start in Glasgow in a little over three weeks.
But with Joe Biden’s administration having rejoined the deal this year, Turkey was the only G20 economy not to have ratified the deal. Only Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Iran and Eritrea remain outside.
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