Turkish Parliament ratifies Paris Climate Agreement

All political parties in the Turkish parliament voted in favor of the agreement.

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Turkey became the last G20 nation to ratify the Paris climate agreement on Wednesday, almost six years after initially signing it. All political parties in parliament gave Yes vote to the agreement.

The Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015 by nearly 200 nations, commits participants to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and, if possible, below 1.5 degrees. Each country is responsible for developing its own plan for achieving those goals.

Turkey was one of just a handful of signatory countries that had not yet ratified the pact. It had held out for years because the government opposed Turkey being categorized as an industrialized nation, which means the country is obliged to do more on climate that developing nations.