Paris Agreement Ratified

Paris Agreement Ratified The bill approving ratification of the Paris Agreement was accepted by the Turkish Grand National Assembly. The efforts of EGIAD, which organized numerous events and press statements throughout 2021 and called on authorities to ratify the Paris Agreement with targets for stopping the climate crisis and limiting global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees, have yielded results. Speaking on the subject, EGIAD Aegean Young Businessmen's Association Board Chairman Alp Avni Yelkenbiçer emphasized that the Paris Agreement, approved by 195 countries, represents a historic turning point in the global fight against climate change: "The Agreement also represents an important opportunity within the framework of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda to leave behind a world with a more stable, healthier planet, fairer societies and more vibrant economies. This Agreement will guide the entire world in the transition to clean energy on a global scale. This transition necessitates changes in all relevant political decisions, business and investment behaviors. The Paris Agreement has the characteristic of being the first multilateral agreement on climate change covering nearly all global emissions. The Paris Agreement is a success for the world. It affirms the EU's path toward a low-carbon economy. This important step, which had been missing only Turkey among G-20 countries, has now been completed. Turkey has taken a very significant step. The ratification of the Paris Agreement is a very important step, but the real work starts now," he said. Recently, EGIAD organized an "Climate Crisis and EU Green Deal" meeting in cooperation with WWF-Turkey (World Wildlife Fund Turkey) and "EU Green Deal" meetings in cooperation with NGOs, and had been a close follower of the subject through numerous press statements. Yelkenbiçer came to the fore in the meetings held with the statement: "We should ratify the Paris Agreement". EGIAD Board Chairman Alp Avni Yelkenbiçer stated that the European Union Green Deal at its core presents a roadmap with broad and effective regulations that provide new commitments in tackling climate and environmental challenges, and recalled that in the EU Green Deal with the target of reducing carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2030 and then to zero by 2050, applications such as sector-specific criteria, new taxes and business models will be gradually introduced to achieve these targets; "Within the framework of the Green Deal, work continues on the development of a system to apply additional obligations planned for certain goods from non-EU countries that have not implemented regulations compatible with climate change policies applied in the EU through the carbon border adjustment mechanism aimed at reducing carbon leakage. According to the Green Deal, the EU now sets as a prerequisite for trade agreements with other countries that candidate countries "ratify and effectively implement" the Paris Agreement. The EU Green Deal should be approached with the perspective that every threat contains an opportunity. It can enable Turkey to support low-carbon production and thus gain an advantageous position compared to high-carbon countries, increasing its market share in exports to EU countries," he said.