Turkey on climate disasters, targets at COP26

Turkish Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change, Murat Kurum told the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow on Tuesday that it was "imperative" countries that are historically largely at fault for the climate crisis "take responsibility".

Kurum said those in Turkey "are losing our souls" facing a litany of climate crisis-related disasters.

The Turkish minister also pointed to Turkey's net zero emissions goal by 2053, and that Turkey ratificatied the Paris Climate Accord in early October.

Though Turkey was among the first countries to sign the Paris Agreement in 2016, it held off ratifying it as it sought to be reclassified as a developing instead of developed country to avoid harsher emission reduction targets and benefit from financial support.

It was among six countries, which include Iran, Iraq, Eritrea, Libya and Yemen not to ratify it.

The United Nations climate summit in Glasgow continued with national statements on Tuesday, still far from the giant leaps needed to limit global warming to internationally accepted goals.

And time is running out on the two weeks of negotiations.