Various: Turkey has this week ratified the Kyoto Protocol, following an overwhelming vote in the national Parliament. The decision fulfils a promise first revealed by President Abdullah Gül, at WWF’s international conference in Bodrum, Turkey, in May 2008. A month later, Turkey sgned the protocol, becoming the 178th nation to do so, but it required ratification to come into effect. WWF and other environmental NGOs and civil society organizations had long pressed for the decision over …