ANKARA
Turkey issued a climate change declaration to fight the irreversible consequences of climate change Friday during a conference on the issue in the city of Safranbolu.
"In order to prevent the irreversible consequences of climate change, prevention and cooperation on the global scale should take place," Turkish Minister of Environment and Urbanization Idris Gulluce said during the international Safranbolu Climate Change conference that started on March 25 and ended on March 27. "The increase of natural disasters all over the world compels all countries to keep (the matter) on the top of the agenda."
The “Safranbolu Declaration” was offered to member countries of the Economic Cooperation Organization.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Climate Change conference will take place in Paris in late 2015, with a goal of creating a legally-binding agreement about the effects of climate change.
"As Turkey, our main path in international climate change talks is to protect the rights of countries that did not contribute to climate change yet are affected most by it," Gulluce said.
Safranbolu is located in the central-northern province of Karabuk in Turkey and has been declared by UNESCO as one of the 20 best-reserved sites around the world in its list of world cultural heritage sites.
It maintains the title of best-protected tourism site with its Ottoman traditional houses built in the 18th to 20th century.
