Turkey: Enhancing the Capacity of Turkey to Adapt to Climate Change

Ensure Environmental Sustainability

JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS

Delivery Rate

Main Achievements

• Participatory Vulnerability Assessment Workshops organized in 11 provinces contributing to development of the National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy.
• Needs and gap analysis of drought and flood early warning systems finalized and key stakeholder consulted to identify data for improved early warning mechanisms.
• 18 community-based adaptation projects in the Seyhan River Basin have been selected and are underway.

Contact Atila Uras, atila.uras@undp.org

This joint program addresses the priority area of “Enhancing Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change”. Turkey is highly vulnerable to climate change. As part of the southern belt of Mediterranean Europe, the country is already facing an observed warming trend in temperatures and a decreasing trend in precipitation.

This is having a major negative effect on water availability for food production and rural development, further exacerbating the social and regional disparities in a country characterized by a wide (and widening) gap between the eastern and southeastern provinces and the rest of the country. The core objective of developing national capacities to manage climate change risks would be achieved through mainstreaming climate change issues into (1) national development framework; (2) local pilot actions; and (3) the UN country programmatic framework. This joint program was developed by the UN Country Team with clear roles and responsibilities for each participating UN entity.