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The business world met to fight climate change

The business world met to fight climate change
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The first of the conferences plan for the UN Sustainable Development Goals of theSKD, TÜSİAD and Global Compact Turkey was held in Sabanci Center on December 5. The conference organized with the theme of the “International Sector” with the theme of “Employability Changes, business world and Syrians showed intense engagement.

Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals
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T.Centrifugal in the conference. Deputy and Climate Change of the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization Prof. Dr. Mehmet Emin Birpınar expressed that the most important 3 threat facing the world are terror, migration and climate change, and that climate change is a matter in the private sector. With its own request in mind with Turkey in 1992, Apınar said that Turkey had a history of error in EK1 and EK2 list. To fix this error, Turkey has to deal for many years. Apınar, which also describes the approach of 3 groups in developing climate change logic, developed and less developed countries, said that Turkey was not included among the countries responsible for the reduction at the moment, but also adopted the “decreasing” policy, stressed that the commitments on this subject are access to international financial mechanisms. In the peaks in Paris and Marrakech, Turkey has not been accepted for this request, so Paris Agreement has not been given to the TBMM approval.
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The UN Development Program (UNDP) Turkey Mukim Representative Assistant Atila Uras, Binyr Development Goals (BKH) faces Sustainable Development Goals (SKH) in the process of BKH, comparing to the Sustainable Development Goals and the Perspective of the Business World Vision, where these were re-thinked as the first 5 SKH. Uras, who expresses the direct private sector of SKHs, number 7, 8, 9, 12 said that the SDG Compass work developed by the World Sustainable Development Business Council (WBCSD) allows them to identify and measure the specific sector. Uras also gave UNDP Turkey to prepare a report that explores the preparation and needs of the private sector.

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The other speaker of the session was the Regional Environment Centre (REC) Turkish Director. Sayman shared the results of the CEO Algı Research in order to reveal the point of view to the SKHs of the private sector. Accordingly; the most important motivation in adopting climate change policies of companies within the survey is ‘itibar management’, only 9% of these companies think that the expected of climate change in the next 5 years is high.
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The close session of the conference was held with the participation of the Board of Directors of the TÜSİAD, Metin Akman moderator, SKD Turkey President Canan Ercan Steel and Global Compact Turkey Chairman Mustafa Distinct. Our President Steel Section that we represent a wide and impact in the business world as SKD, and we like that we work for SKHs. In particular, energy efficiency in buildings, vehicles and industries• Studies for cyclic economy, and in this context, Davos award-winning international projects, materials in Turkey; the importance of hunger and stress reporting and the importance of our Association. The elite essential that the CEO of Algı Research made by REC Turkey has nowd tolerance to a reputation management, note as a requirement. On the question of Akman’s future, Steel said that we will continue to work in order to increase the role of the business world in the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals as SKD, is homeworks to be removed from research results, and today’s event will continue with 3 conferences. As Global Compact, the future-termest are to land, act and collaborate, and especially in collaboration with the business world and NGOs.

Source: Sustainable Business