that it has implemented a sustainable business model, and sustainability-themed investments have a 74% share of the bank's loan portfolio. Turkey's Green Party is calling for an end to coal burning and the phasing out of all fossil-fuel use by 2050. Electricity generated from lignite is often described by politicians and the media as generated from "local resources" and added to the renewables percentage. Anadolu Agency describes coal as "black diamonds", and TRT World calls natural gas "blue gold". In 2021 Yeni Şafak newspaper interviewed retired professor and former junior environment minister Mustafa Ozturk (), as an authority on the environment, and quoted him saying that Turkey "does not emit greenhouse gases". After the 2020/21 droughts, the Nationalist Movement Party (the smaller party in the governing coalition) said that climate change is a national security issue. The threat of climate change had already been securitized by Environment Minister Murat Kurum back in 2019. Also following on from the droughts, all parties in parliament, including smaller opposition parties like the Peoples' Democratic Party and the Good Party, agreed to set up a Parliamentary Research Commission to combat climate change and drought. A draft climate law, including emissions trading, was considered in 2021 but there is no emissions trading. But the Turkish government proposes to finance at least one new coal-fired power station. The Turkey Wealth Fund-proposed Afşin-Elbistan C may not be constructed, despite a government guarantee to purchase electricity from lignite-fired power stations until 2024 at an inflation-linked price. Following ratification of the Paris Agreement the CHP said that no more fossil fuel power plants should be built and that there should be carbon trading. Businesses say the country needs to decarbonize so that money which would otherwise be lost to the CBAM remains in the country: NGOs and academics have such plans, however a February 2022 government-led "Climate Council" of all those groups and others issued over 200 recommendations, but not one for coal phase out. European Climate Action Network Turkey complained that civil society is not properly represented in decision making and in particular that there were no organizations such as theirs in the “ Emission Reduction Commission” of the Climate Council. International politics Murat Kurum has said that global cooperation is key to tackling climate change, and US climate change envoy John Kerry has said that the top 20 emitting countries should reduce emissions immediately. Turkey and some