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General Directorate of European Union and Foreign Relations / Bulletin

EGYPT / COP27

AT COP27, TÜRKİYE’S MISSION TO FIGHT

CLIMATE CHANGE EXPLAINED

“Leaving No One Behind Is Our

Most Fundamental Duty”

Minister of Environment and Urbanization Murat
Kurum made evaluations after COP27 held in
Egypt and explained the road map followed
by Türkiye in the fight against climate change.
Minister Kurum, who has diplomatic contacts with
his counterparts from 8 different countries and
representatives of the European Union on behalf
of our country, stated that they acted with a “fairer
world” mission in the meetings and said “It is our
most basic duty not to leave anyone behind”.
Minister Murat Kurum, who stated that the whole
world came together to fight climate change
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with a common goal at the 27 Conference of
the Parties to the United Nations (UN) Framework
Convention on Climate Change (COP27) hosted
by Egypt, stated that the participation in the
conference increased day by day.

35 thousand participants from 197 countries

Stating that 35 thousand people from 197
countries participated in the meeting this year,
Minister Kurum said, “The conference was held
with the theme of ‘Implementation Phase’ of
the Paris Climate Agreement. The studies were
carried out under four main headings: adaptation,
loss-damage, finance and reduction. We sadly
witnessed how important it is to support countries
in terms of loss and damage when we went to
the region and the troubles caused by the flood
disaster in Pakistan, which has recently been New Collaborations to Combat Climate Change
a friend and brother country. As our President
stated, it is our most basic duty not to leave Reminding that they had an intense negotiation process
anyone behind with the belief that a fair world can during the conference, Minister Murat Kurum said, “We had
exist. The disaster that Pakistan is experiencing bilateral negotiations around new collaborations with Germany,
today can happen in all of our countries. It is a Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Qatar, the Netherlands, the EU,
conscientious responsibility of everyone to keep Slovenia, Egypt, and Azerbaijan, as well as studies, projects,
the issue of loss and damage on the agenda at all and investments that we can carry out jointly. We have held
times and to hear the voice of the most vulnerable discussions on many issues such as zero waste, climate
countries. In this sense, the decision taken at the change, habitat protection, water adaptation, resilient cities,
Conference on the establishment of a financing and sustainable transformation. In addition, we carried out 77
mechanism to cover the losses and damages of side events in the Turkish pavilion and represented our country
developing countries due to disasters related to in the best way. Our public institutions, local governments,
climate change is a very pleasing situation for us. universities, non-governmental organizations, representatives
Thus, developing countries have been provided of our private sector explained their work on climate change
with an opportunity to eliminate the losses and and environment issues to COP27 participants in the pavilion.
damages they have experienced due to the At these events, presentations and speeches were held on
destructive effects of climate change”. many issues from water and soil management to the circular
economy, from renewable energy to energy efficiency in public
buildings”.

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