The global food system’s greenhouse gas emissions will add nearly 1 degree Celsius to Earth’s surface temperatures by 2100 on current trends, obliterating Paris Agreement climate goals, scientists have warned. A major overhaul of the sector, from production to distribution to consumption, could reduce those emissions by more than half even as global population …
Read More »UNDP SUPPORTS TURKEY IN CHARTING A COURSE TO NET ZERO BY 2053…
Press release… With ambitions high after Turkey’s ratification of the Paris Agreement, work starts on a climate change strategy to 2050 and an action plan to 2030… Ankara, 16 December 2021 – In the wake of Turkey’s ratification earlier this year of the Paris Agreement and commitment to achieve a …
Read More »“GREEN DEAL CAN CREATE EU-TURKEY COOPERATION”
Digitalization, Green Deal emerge as important topics, their integration into Customs Union discussed in Ankara conference, says expert… The Green Deal, a set of policy initiatives by the European Commission to make Europe climate neutral by 2050, can create cooperation between the EU and Turkey to work towards same objectives, …
Read More »“TURKEY WILL PLAY A LEADING ROLE WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE GREEN DEAL”
Turkey will assume a leading role in carrying out the Green Development Revolution, the country’s Agriculture and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli said Tuesday. “In terms of developing sustainable agricultural practices and combating climate change, within the scope of the ‘Green Deal,’ we started our work on the food system,” he …
Read More »PAKDEMİRLİ: WE ATTACH GREAT IMPORTANCE TO INCREASING SOIL FERTILITY
Country attaches great importance to increasing soil fertility as one of strategies to increase agricultural yield, says minister… Turkey will assume a leading role in implementing the green development revolution, the country’s Agriculture and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli said on Tuesday. “In terms of developing sustainable agricultural practices and combating …
Read More »JAK ESKİNAZİ: WE NEED GREEN INVESTMENT MOBILISATION
Press release… The bill regarding the ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement was accepted unanimously in the General Assembly of the Parliament (Grand National Assembly – TBMM) and entered into force after being published in the Official Gazette. Jak Eskinazi Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EİB) Coordinator Chair, Jak Eskinazi, reminded that …
Read More »“PARIS AGREEMENT IS OF VITAL IMPORTANCE FOR THE FUTURE OF 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 …
Read More »HÜSEYİN VATANSEVER: PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT SHOULD BE ENDORSED IN THE PARLIAMENT
Press release… April 29, 2020 While Coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic enhances the awareness concerning nature destructions of which the cause of climate changes, Paris Climate Agreement, signed by Turkey in 2016, can not enter into force for not has been adopted in Parliament. Turkey who inked the agreement in 2015 so …
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