Türkiye

Overall rating
Critically insufficient

Policies and action
against fair share

Highly insufficient
< 4°C World

NDC target
against modelled domestic pathways

Critically insufficient
4°C+ World

NDC target
against fair share

Critically insufficient
4°C+ World
Climate finance
Information incomplete
Net zero target

year

2053

Comprehensiveness rated as

Poor
Land use & forestry
Not significant

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