COP24: Türkiye Pavyonunda Yan Etkinlikler Başlıyor

Polonya’nın Katowice kentinde geçtiğimiz Pazar günü (02.12.2018) başlayan ve 14 Aralık tarihine kadar devam edecek olan Birleşmiş Milletler İklim Konferansı’nın (COP24) Türkiye Pavyonunda 6 Aralık itibariyle yan etkinlikler de start alıyor. Türkiye delegasyonun yayımladığı programa göre 13 Aralık tarihine kadar 15 tane yan etkinlik düzenlenecek.

Yaklaşık 200 hükümetin temsilcileri ile 20.000’den fazla devlet dışı aktör delegesinin katıldığı Birleşmiş Milletler İklim Konferansı’ndaki (COP24) Türkiye Pavyonu 15 tane yan etkinliğe ev sahipliği yapacak. 6-13 Aralık tarihleri arasında gerçekleşecek yan etkinliklerde iklim finansmanı, enerji dönüşümü, yenilenebilir enerji ve sürdürülebilir ekonomi gibi konular ele alınacak.

İklim Haber de Türkiye Pavyonunda 13 Aralık’ta “Türkiye’de İklim Değişikliği Algısı ve İletişim” adlı bir yan etkinlik düzenleyecek. Kolaylaştırıcılığını EKOIQ ve İklim Haber’in Genel Yayın Yönetmen Barış Doğru’nun yapacağı etkinliğe İklim Haber’den Bulut Bagatır, Serbest Gazeteci Melis Alphan ve bilim insanı Cem İskender Aydın katılacak. Etkinlikte, Türkiye’deki mevcut iklim değişikliği algısı, iklim değişikliği ve medya, iklim değişikliğinin karmaşıklığına karşı iletişimin gerekliliği konuları tartışılacak.

İşte Türkiye Pavyonunda gerçekleşecek yan etkinliklerin İngilizce yayımlanan programı:

6 Aralık

15.30 – 17.30

OPPORTUNITIES OF ENERGY TRANSITION IN AN EMERGING ECONOMY

Facilitator: Dr. Ümit Şahin, Climate Studies Coordinator, İstanbul Policy Center at

Sabancı University

Dr. Değer Saygın, Director, Turkey SHURA Energy Transition Center

Dr. Takeshi Kuramochi, Senior Climate Researcher, New Climate Institute

Dr. Sebastian Helgenberger, Scientific Project Leader, Institute for Advanced

Sustainability Studies

Richard Baron, Executive Director, 2050 Pathways Platform

7 Aralık

 13.00 – 15.00

COMMUNITY POWER BASED TRANSITION TO 100 % RENEWABLE ENERGY IN

TURKEY AND THE WORLD

Facilitator: Prof. Dr. Tanay Sıdkı Uyar, Head of Energy Section, Marmara

University, Turkey; President, Bioenergy Association of Turkey (BIODER)

15.30 – 17.30

CLEANTECH INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR TRANSFORMATIVE

CLIMATE SOLUTIONS AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMİC GROWTH: SPOTLIGHT ON TURKEY

Facilitator: Alla Metelitsa, Chief, Climate Policy and Partnerships Division, Department of

Energy, UNIDO, UNIDO’s Approach in Adressing Climate Change in Turkey

Dr. Abdullah Buğrahan Karaveli, Specialist, Ministry of Industry and Technology of the Republic of Turkey, Turkey’s Cleantech Innovation Ecosystem

Murat Bahadır Kılınç, CEO, Episome Biotech, Global Cleantech Innovation Program (GCIP)

Innovation Showcase

Yalçın Yılmaz, CEO, Carbomart, Global Cleantech Innovation Program (GCIP) Innovation

Showcase

Mehmet Kırca, Investing in Clean Technology Innovations in Turkey

10 Aralık

09.30 – 11.00

DEVELOPMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY COOPERATIVES IN TURKEY

Facilitator: Gülsüm Gözde Ayanoğlu, Specialist, Ministry of Trade, General

Information About Development of Renewable Energy Cooperatives in Turkey

Kardelen Afrodit Adsal,

Bahtiyar Kurt, Cluster Lead for Natural Resources and Biodiversity, UNDP

Country Office Turkey, Sustainable Energy Financing Mechanism for Solar

Photovoltaic Systems in Forest Villages in Turkey

Oral Kaya/Nazan Ünverir, Troya Renewable Energy Cooperatives

11.15 – 13.00

LAUNCH EVENT: TURKEY’S 7TH NATIONAL COMMUNICATION

Facilitator: Diren Ertekin, Head of Department, Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation of the

Republic of Turkey

Gamze Çelikyılmaz, Project Manager, UNDP Country Office Turkey, Turkey’s Seventh National

Communication

Turkey’s Fight Against Climate Change: Policies, Measures, Initiatives and Tools (tbd), Ministry of Industry and Technology of the Republic of Turkey, Policies, Measures and Initiatives in the Industry Sector

Prof. Dr. Yusuf Serengil, İstanbul University, Recent Improvements in Technical Capacity of LULUCF

Sector in Turkey to Support Mitigation Actions

(tbd), TUSIAD, Non-State Initiatives to Fight Against Climate Change, Business Perspective

Mesut Demircan, Turkish State Meteorological Service, Systematic Observation Network of Turkey

13.15-15.15

BIOENERGY IN TURKEY AND THE WORLD

Facilitator: Prof. Dr. Tanay Sıdkı Uyar, Head of Energy Section, Marmara University, Turkey; President, Bioenergy Association of Turkey (BIODER),

15.30 – 17.30

MOBILIZING THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CO-BENEFITS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY:TURKEY AND EMERGING ECONOMIES

Facilitator: Dr. Ümit Şahin, Climate Studies Coordinator, İstanbul Policy Center at Sabancı University

Dr. Sebastian Helgenberger, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Scientific Project Leader

Bengisu Özenç, Economist, İstanbul Policy Center at Sabancı University

Nguy Thi Khanh, Director, GreenID, Vietnam

11 Aralık

10.30 – 12.30

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY IN TURKEY

Facilitator: Murat Zekeriya Aydın, General Director, General Directorate of Energy Affairs, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources

Murat Hardalaç, Deputy General Director, General Directorate of Energy Affairs, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources

Abdülkadir Bektaş, Head of Department, General Directorate of Energy Affairs, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources

Emre Kalkan, Specialist, General Directorate of Energy Affairs, Ministry of Energy and Natural

Resources

Hatice Aslı Oğuz, Engineer, General Directorate of Energy Affairs, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources

13.00 – 15.00

THE POTENTIAL THAT BUSINESS WORLD CAN CREATE IN THE PROCESS OF LOW CARBON DEVELOPMENT

Facilitator: Özgür Öztürk, Deputy Leader of TUSIAD Environment and Climate Change

Working Group, Akçansa

İlksen Önbilgin, Member of TUSIAD Environment and Climate Change Working Group,

TÜPRAŞ

Hande Hekim, Member of TUSIAD Environment and Climate Change Working Group, OYAK

Zeynep Özbek, Member of TUSIAD Environment and Climate Change Working Group, Arçelik

Hakan Olcay, Member of TUSIAD Environment and Climate Change Working Group, Siemens

15.30- 17.30

SUSTAINABLE FINANCE AS AN INSTRUMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF COMBATTING CLIMATE CHANGE

Facilitator: Derya Özet Yalgı, Deputy Leader of TUSIAD Environment and Climate

Change Working Group, Garanti Bank

Erhan Çalışkan, Member of TUSIAD Environment and Climate Change Working

Group, TSKB

Richard Betts, Member of TUSIAD Environment and Climate Change Working

Group, EY

Fatih Memiş, Member of TUSIAD Environment and Climate Change Working

Group, Arçelik

12 Aralık

 10.30- 12.30

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE AS A SOCIAL ISSUE

Facilitator: Oğuz Tosun, World Climate Program Ambassador in Turkey, Global Balance

Association, Climate Action Ownership By University Students in Turkey

Andrew Jones, Co-Director and Co-Founder of Climate Interactive/USA, Global Youth Taking

Action via the “World Climate” Simulation

Lina Yaseen, COP 24 Fellow, Climate Interactive/South Sudan, Youth Journalism in Climate

Change

Jorge Sanchez Hernandez, Former Project Manager European Student Forum (AEGEE)/Spain,

Integrating European Youth in Climate Action

Marie-Claire Graf, Board Member/Swiss Youth for Climate, The Power of Youth Shaping

Climate Action

13.00 – 15.00

CLEANTECH INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR TRANSFORMATIVE CLIMATE SOLUTIONS AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH

Facilitator: Alois Mhlanga, Climate Technology and Innovations Division, Department of Energy, UNIDO, Presentation on Technology Innovation for Transformative Climate Solutions: A Global Perspective

Baljit Wadhwa, Senior Evaluation Officer, GEF, Presentation on GCIP Role in

Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Climate

Eva Axelsson, Head of Sustainability Research, Swedbank Rour, Investing in

Cleantech Innovations

Mehmet Kırca, Investing in Clean Technology Innovations in Turkey

Kevin Braithwaite, Vice President, Network for Global Innovation (NGIN)

15.30 – 17.30

ENHANCING CLIMATE FINANCE ACCESS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN –PRESENTATION OF THE UFM CLIMATE FINANCE STUDY

Introductory Notes

Jorge Borrego, Senior Deputy Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean

TBC, Polish Ministry of Environment, Presidency of COP 24

Keynote Speeches

TBC Salaheddine Mezouar, President of the Morocco Confederation of Business

Associations, (President of COP 22)

Philip Owen, Head of Unit Climate Finance, European Commission – Directorate for

Climate Action, European Union, UfM Co-presidency

TBC Jihad Alsawair, Ministry of Environment of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,

UfM Co-presidency

Presentation of the UfM’s Climate Finance Study

Robert Tippmann, Senior Partner, Climatekos

International Perspectives on Climate Finance; Public, Private National/Subnational Perspectivers

Pieter Tepstra, Member of the UNFCCC Standing Committee on Finance (presentation on the results of the SCF Biennial Assessment)

Willem van Hasselt, World Alliance for Efficient Solutions and Solar Impulse

Lin O’Grady, Deputy Director for Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure, EBRD

Roger Albinyana, Director of Euro-Mediterranean Policies and Regional Programmes,

IEMed TBC Dr Rajae Chafil, Director of 4CMaroc (Center of Competencies in Climate

Changes)

TBC Monica Scatasta, Head of Environment, Climate and Social Policy, EIB

13 Aralık

10.30 – 12.30

 ENHANCING CLIMATE ACTIONS IN TURKEY VIA BEST PRACTICES

Facilitator: Ömer Öztürk, Specialist, General Directorate for Enviromental

Management, Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation

Gaye Erkan, Enhancing Required Joint Efforts on Climate Action Project Team Leader,

WEglobal, Grant Scheme as a Tool for Supporting Local Climate Action in Turkey

Prof. Dr. Yusuf Serengil, Team Leader, AESA Group, Capacity Building in Turkey’s

LULUCF Sector: Key Issues for the post 2020 period

Rade Glomazic, Project Director, Human Dynamics, Technical Assistance for Developed

Analytical Basis for Formulating Strategies and Actions towards Low Carbon

Development in Turkey

13.00 – 15.00

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCIAL INNOVATION:

APPLICATIONS IN THE TURKISH BANKING SECTOR

Facilitator: Ayşe Ece Sevin, Manager, ESCARUS-TSKB Sustainability

Consultancy

Derya Özet Yalgı, Sustainability Manager, Garanti Bank

Gizem Pamukçuoğlu, Senior Manager, TSKB

Derya Sargın Malkoç, Assistance Manager, Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş.

Oya Sarı, Head of Structured Finance and Investor Relations, Şekerbank T.A.Ş.

15.30 – 17.30

CLIMATE CHANGE PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATIONS IN TURKEY

Facilitator: Barış Doğru, EKOIQ and İklim Haber Editor-in Chief, Ekologos

Bulut Bagatır, İklim Haber, Current Climate Perception in Turkey

Melis Alphan, Independent Journalist, Climate Change and Media

Cem İskender Aydın, Scientist, Complexity of Climate Change vs. Necessity of

Communications

Selçuk Demirci, İklim Haber, Live Streaming