Climate Change and Environment

In Anamur (a district of Mersin province), which alone meets 30 percent of Turkey’s banana production, drought bells began to ring. As farmers set out looking for ways to save their crops, there are concerns that the yield loss will reach serious proportions. AN AVERAGE OF 200 THOUSAND TONNES OF …

Press release… A group of countries, including Sri Lanka, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Montenegro and the United Kingdom, announced today the “No New Coal Plant Agreement” aimed at halting the construction of new coal-fired power plants ahead of UN Climate Summit COP26. This new initiative calls on countries to commit …

Press release… Pointing out that global climate change and consumer preferences are laying the foundations of a new world, Aegean Exporters’ Association (EİB) Vice Chair Birol Celep underlined that the Green Deal, which sets out the ruleset of Europe’s new growth strategy, will affect many sectors, especially food and agriculture. …

Press release… İzmir Commodity Exchange Chairwoman Işınsu Kestelli and Assembly Speaker Barış Kocagöz made a statement on the subject after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that the Paris Agreement would come to the agenda of the Parliament. Kestelli and Kocagöz said that the Paris Agreement, which is one of the …

Press release… Aiming to reach a carbon-neutral economy by 2050, the energy sector is one of the industries in which the European Union (EU) carries out various studies. Jak Eskinazi said, “If we want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we need to reduce greenhouse gas oscillations in the energy sector …

Racketeers are exploiting legal loopholes to grab lands on lakes and around dams that are drying due to drought and leasing them out for commercial agricultural activities, daily Milliyet has reported. Those lands, which emerge when water levels in lakes or dams recede, are very fertile but they normally belong …

A Turkish expert has advised authorities to sell all the trees burned in last month’s wildfires that devastated forests in 53 provinces out of all 81 late July and use the money collected in the fight against future forest fires. According to data from the General Directorate of Forestry, some …

Cows are smart. “Why shouldn’t they be able to learn how to use a toilet?” Researchers in Germany recently demonstrated that cattle can be toilet trained to reduce some of their climate impact. By having the young cows pee in latrines made of turf, the team of experts in animal behavior …