Doha snapshots 5: Turkish Ambassador's climate confusion / Tweets everywhere / Monckton evicted / Aviva builds in ESG / Amazing fact of the day
Submitted on Sat, 2012-12-08 12:19At one of the final side events by the Turkish industry and business association, TÜSİAD, the talk is at first all about carbon. But carbon credits are not going to be a big driver of emission reductions in Turkey.
Turkey is growing fast, and energy demand is growing even faster as the middle class expands; but 70% of primary energy supply is dependent on fossil fuel imports, largely from sometimes capricious Russia. These fuel imports are responsible for the bulk of Turkey's sizeable current account deficit.
