Applicability of international environmental conventions at the national level: Practices in Turkey in the example of the Paris Agreement

International environmental agreements, which have become a very important tool of global environmental management, are legal regulations that enable joint solutions to global environmental issues through international cooperation. Today, international environmental agreements on almost all problematic areas have important functions in terms of both the political formation for the solution of these problems and the legal basis for the solution of the issue. Moreover, these agreements also guide the parties in creating and implementing their own environmental policies. The problems in the implementation phase of the said conventions, which is a very important term in global environmental management, prevent the success of international environmental conventions and their effects on the solution of environmental issues, which are their main purpose, are discussed. The most important factor in the implementation of contracts is the structure of the contract in question. Therefore, in our study, the applicability of international environmental conventions is examined. Accordingly, their main characteristics are evaluated in general. Then, the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation, adaptation and financing is analyzed within the scope of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). By examining both the scope and legal structure of the Paris Agreement, harmonization problems related to the agreement were tried to be revealed. In the last part, our country's compliance with the international environmental conventions and the Paris agreement has been evaluated.