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

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Ensure Environmental Sustainability

JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS

Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies UNEP, UNDP, FAO, UNIDO
Main Achievements
  • The draft Climate Change National Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan has been developed and endorsed by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, and approved by the Climate Change Coordination Board.
  • A Capacity Development Programme was developed, and a significant number of trainings completed in areas such as Climate Data Analysis, Carbon Management and Early Warning and Monitoring Systems. Capacity increased of government officials, civil society and universities to make efficient use of current policies and develop new ones in the context of climate change.
  • 18 community-based climate change adaptation projects in the Seyhan River Basin were finalized and lessons learned are being captured. A National Cleaner Production and Eco-Efficiency Centre was established to promote efficient water use, and six companies in the Seyhan River Basin are achieving water savings.
Contact Atila Uras, JP Coordinator
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.

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