Karim Elgendy

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Karim Elgendy is an Associate Fellow with Chatham House, a Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, and the founder of Carboun.

Karim Elgendy

Jan 14 2022

Schrödinger's Cat: Turkiye's New Climate Policy

Illuminem Voices

Environmental Sustainability · Climate Change

The last three months witnessed a dramatic transformation in Turkiye's climate policy. In the span of just a few weeks, Turkiye's climate policy shifted from a climate laggard with modest climate actions, to a regional climate pioneer with ambitious climate goals. It also shifted its position from being an emerging economy working hard to be recognised as a developing country in order to gain access to climate finance, into a country more at ease with being treated as a developed economy.

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The words 'dream big' written on a black wall

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