Turkey To Join Kyoto Protocol

-PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION ADOPTS RELEVANT BILL

ANKARA - Turkish Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Commission has adopted a bill to ratify Kyoto Protocol, the UN-led global climate pact on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
The bill envisages Turkey`s joining the protocol referring to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change with the objective of reducing greenhouse gases that cause climate change.
The bill was submitted to the Turkish parliament speaker`s office on June 5th. It was adopted by the Parliamentary Environment Commission on June 11th and the EU Adjustment Commission on June 26th.
The bill will come into effect after being ratified by the full house of the parliament.
The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on December 11th, 1997, and went into force on February 16th, 2005. As of June 2008, 182 countries have ratified the protocol.
(UK-MS)