Climate Change and Environment

In the Burhaniye district of Balıkesir province, one of the important olive production centres of Turkiye, olive seeds are used as fuel. Olive seeds, which are in great demand as heating fuel in the domestic market, are also exported to Greece. While the olives brought by the olive producer partners …

The global food system is in disarray. Animal agriculture is a major driver of global heating, and as many as 12 million deaths from heart disease, stroke, cancers and diabetes are each year connected to eating the wrong things, like too much red and processed meat and too few fruits and vegetables. Unless the world …

Press release… TÜİOSB DETERMINED THE ROAD MAP FOR 2022… 2022 Targets and Plans Meeting was held with the participation of company representatives who will invest in TÜİOSB, which is Turkiye’s first new generation exporter, digital and green organised industrial zone, with the aim of industry 4.0 and based on respect …

Region experiencing driest conditions since 1981, World Food Programme says… NAIROBI, Kenya… A severe drought that has hit the Horn of Africa region killed thousands of livestock and left millions of people facing severe hunger, the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a report Tuesday. The report released by WFP’s …

While world coffee reserves plunged to the lowest level in more than two decades and deliveries fall amid high shipping costs, dwindling amounts held in reserves will keep coffee prices near record levels. As Bloomberg reported, stockpiles of high-end arabica beans, a favorite of artisan coffee shops and chains like …

Modern irrigation in agriculture is needed to protect wetlands… WWF-Turkiye (World Wildlife Fund) released a statement on February 2, World Wetlands Day. In the statement, it was pointed out that wetlands, which are the ecosystems with the highest biological production potential after tropical forests, are also important storage areas of …

More than 1 million seabirds die each year due to plastic waste. Every year, 381 million tons of plastic waste is generated in the world! While the use of plastic is increasing rapidly with the pandemic, the life of all living things is negatively affected. According to the report published …

Today more than 70 leading businesses and financial institutions have called for a legally binding UN treaty on plastic pollution in a pre-UNEA statement.  The statement is an indictment on the severity of our current plastic crisis, which merits immediate and concerted global efforts that tackle the problem at its root …

Press release… Tolga Şallı, Chairperson of the Environmentalist Energy Association, made a written statement about the renewable energy. Şallı said, “Our country, which has many main resources from agriculture to tourism, from industry to energy, needs to use renewable energy resources in the most effective way in the production stages. …

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry determines alternative crops to reduce the impact of climate change on agriculture. The coffee tree stands out in the Mediterranean. With the warm winters in Marmara, olive groves become widespread and hot and dry summers facilitate cotton production. It is predicted that orchards will …