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General Directorate of European Union and Foreign Relations / Bulletin

ANKARA

GREEN TRANSFORMATION IN INDUSTRY

Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Murat Kurum attended the
opening of the “Green Transformation in Industry Seminar” organized within the scope of
the IPA program and made a speech.

The opening ceremony of the “Green Transformation in Industry Seminar” organized within the scope of the “Determination
of the Industrial Emission Strategy in accordance with the Industrial Pollution Control and Prevention Project” of IPA was
performed in Ankara. Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Murat Kurum made a speech at the opening
ceremony, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Director for EU Affairs Ambassador Faruk Kaymakçı, Deputy Ministers of
Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Mücahit Demirtaş and Hasan Suver and Deputy Head of the EU Delegation
to Türkiye Eleftheria Pertzinidou were present.

Climate Change is the Source of 91 Percent of Disasters “We will support clean production and investment
processes”
Minister Kurum stated that the world has a history of billions
of years, while the understanding of production, which was Minister Kurum emphasized that Türkiye has been heavily
established with the industrial revolution and has been affected by disasters in recent years, floods, fires, and
going on for 200 years, has made life easier and caused the mucilage in the Marmara Sea are among the most concrete
ecological balance to be shaken. Reminding that Hazrat and sadest examples of this, and this photo shows that the
Mevlana’s statement “This world is like a mountain where fight against climate change is a matter of Türkiye’s future
what we do will echo and return to us”, Kurum stated that and independence. Kurum stated that they carry out climate
as a result of human-caused climate change, there are change studies with determination with all sectors, and that
negativities in many areas from housing to transportation, they have now reached the final stage in their work on Climate
from agriculture to health, from industry to supply chain. Law together with the Climate Coordination Board, “In 2023,
Kurum said that in the latest Global Risks Report published we will have put forward the Climate Law in accordance with
by the United Nations this year, they saw that 91 percent of our targets for 2053 net zero emissions”. Reminding that they
disasters were related to climate. announced the National Contribution Declaration at COP27,
Kurum said that Türkiye aims to prevent the formation of
500 million tons of emissions for 2030 and that they will
continue to move forward with strong policies with the net
zero emission target by reaching the peak of emissions until
2038 at the latest.

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