Turkish president urges developed nations to take greater responsibility for climate finance, emissions cuts

Baku, November 11, AZERTACTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday urged developed countries to take greater responsibility for cutting emissions and providing climate finance, stressing that funding must become more accessible, predictable and responsive to countries' needs, according to Anadolu Agency."Developed countries that have historically consumed the global carbon budget should assume greater responsibility for emissions reductions and financing," Erdogan said at the opening of the COP31 Leaders' Summit in Türkiye's southern province of Antalya.He warned that the world was grappling with mounting challenges, including global warming, biodiversity loss, excessive consumption of natural resources, threats to food security and increasingly destructive climate-related disasters.Erdogan said that despite progress in bringing climate change to the forefront of the global agenda since the first COP summit in Berlin 31 years ago, implementation had fallen short. Stressing t