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TURKEY STEPS UP EFFORTS TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE |
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Developing Turkey’s Climate Change National Action Plan” is underway. The inaugural meeting of the project will be held on Friday 3 July 2009 at 16.hrs at British Embassy Residence. With this project, Turkey will draw-up its national road map to mitigate and adapt to climate change in Turkey as well as by extension contribute to global efforts to combat climate change. More >> | |
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AMENDMENTS TO THE APPLICATION GUIDELINE OF COMMUNITY BASED ADAPTATION GRANTS PROGRAMME in SEYHAN RIVER BASIN |
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Amendments have been made on the Grant Application Guideline of Community Based Adaptation Grants Programme in Seyhan River Basin and the deadline for application to Grants Programme has changed. More >> | |
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SEYFE DRYLAND BECOMES A LAKE |
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Within the framework of the “Life Plus Youth Program” developed with the contributions of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Coca-Cola Turkey, the project team of the “Seyfe Dryland Becomes a Lake” has organized the “Water, bucket by bucket” program to support the project to transform Seyfe back to its former wetland conditions. The project team, consisting of students from the Çanakkale 18 Mart University along with the participation of the local population and government officials, symbolically carried buckets of water to Seyfe to underline once again the problems experienced as a result of drought. During the course of the event, participants also distributed “Seyfe Wetland Workshop Memorandum” which underlines the reasons for the ecosystem changes experienced in the region, and the results and suggestions for their solution. | |
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OPPORTUNITIES IN CARBON MARKETS |
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Decrease in the quantity and quality of water in many arid and semi-arid areas, lesser amounts of clean water available to more than one billion people who already experience severe water shortages, increase in the incidence of diseases, reduction in agricultural productivity in the tropics and sub-tropics, depletion of species, displacement of tens of millions of people in low-lying areas and the disaster list goes on… While the world is discussing the dreadful consequences of climate change, a billion dollar sector is emerging in the forefront: Carbon Trade. More >>
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TOWARDS ETHICAL MARKETS |
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Georg Kell, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact Office said global crises are an opportunity to rethink and retool business practices and that UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment will play a critical role in advocating long-term performance. The Forum was held on 9-10 June at the Sabancı Center in Istanbul, Turkey. Local network representatives, civil society, government and business leaders from all over the world attended the forum to share best practices in advancing the UN Global Compact principles during one of the worst financial crises of the century. More >> | |
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DREAMS WINS GOLD |
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The Dreams Academy Project was awarded the Golden Compass Award in the Non-governmental Organization (NGO) category by the Turkish Public Relations Association in the 8th Golden Compass Public Relations Competition. Speaking on the reception of the award, Vodafone Turkey Foundation’s chairman Rengin Onay underlined that being awarded Golden Compass was not only important for the foundation but also a great motivational factor for the socially and physically disabled youth. Onay continued: The Dreams Academy is a project where common dreams are realized. As the Vodafone Turkey Foundation, we are exteremely happy to recieve the award for the project which instills a sense of civil society, volunteerism, sharing, accepting differences, problem solving, and productivity into the core of life. I give my sincere gratitude to those who have contributed to this project.” More >> | |
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WEATHERING TUMULTUOUS TIMES |
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Living Up to Commitments, the recently published UNDP annual report, highlights UNDP’s achievements in 2008 in the areas of poverty reduction, democratic governance, crisis prevention and sustainable development. The 2009 report strongly advocates the international community to live up to its commitments even at times of burgeoning financial crisis where what is at stake for the millions in developing countries who had benefited from the strong growth of the past decade as well as the plight of the poor, who did not benefit from this global growth must be taken into account. More >> | |
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SOCIAL SAFETY NETS = SOCIAL WELFARE |
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The Social Policy programme of the Graduate School of Social Sciences at METU hosted a world renowned professor on development and growth economy: Prof. Dr. François Bourguignon. More >>
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PLANET EARTH NEEDS ATTENTION |
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At a time plagued by copius crises, it is easy to lose sight of climate change and ongoing environmental degradation representing a crisis which will not go away if appropriate measures are not taken immediately. World Environment Day on June 5th, reminded the global community of the opportunities that lie in addressing climate change in a way that promotes economic recovery for countries and their people. More >> | |
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