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"Developing Turkey's Climate Change National Action Plan" is underway. The inaugural meeting of the project will be held on Friday 3 July 2009 at Britsh Embassy Residance. With this project, Turkey will draw-up its national road map to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The project is implemented by the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forestry in coorperation with United nations Developmetn Programme(UNDP), and with the support of Britsh Embassy in Ankara. The project is funded by the UK's Foreign & Commonwealth Office Strategic Programme Fund, under the Low-Carbon, High Growth Programme. The core objective of the project is to develop Turkey's National Climate Change Action Plan to be submitted to the CoordinationBoard on Climate Change of Turkey. The Action Plan aims to tackle climate change by identfying national targets for greenhouse gas emissions and building resilience trough managing impacts and encouraging mitigation and adaptation to climate change in Turkey. Developing a National Climate Change Action Plan will help Turkey take steps to become part of the soluton for combating climate change and support establishing comprehensive, efficient and fair international mechanisms for implementing both Kyoto Protocol as well as a post Kyoto agreement.