Turkey: Enhancing the Capacity of Turkey 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 Joint Programme activities supported Turkey's objective of developing national capacities to manage climate change risks through mainstreaming climate change issues into:

i) The national development framework;

ii) Local pilot actions; and

iii) The UN country programmatic framework.

The Joint Programme was launched in June 2008 and was closed in February 2012.