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Europe offered Turkey cash to join Paris climate accord
Germany, France, UK and two development banks involved in deal with Ankara.
Turkey’s ratification of the Paris climate agreement this week came after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government was offered a guarantee of financial support in talks with France, Germany, the U.K. and…
- Karl Mathiesen
- Politico
The parliament in Ankara ratified the deal late Wednesday night, ending years of refusal to take the final legal step to join the international agreement to limit global warming it signed in 2015.
It came after a deal in principle to provide Turkey with financial support to clean up its emissions, which was…