I will be far far away during the first two months of 2010! I am so happy to announce that I have been selected to be among the Turkish Delegation who will represent Turkey at the 22nd Ship for World Youth (SWY). The Program is a unique international cultural exchange program organised and financed by the Government [...]
Within the framework of “Capacity Building for Climate Change Management in Turkey” project, UNDP Turkey Office organized very interesting training course which was developed by Craig Heart (Holds Phd. from MIT). It is called Climate Diplomat, and the aim is to simulate Post-Koyoto negotiations which will take place in Copenhagen (COP15). My role was COP Presidency. Most of the [...]
After long hours of hard work, I have completed to translate UNFCCC dictionary into Turkish. You may download and it by clicking here. I think the document is going to fill a big gap since there was no such a comprehensive document about the climate change negotiations terminology. Feel free to distribute it! Many thanks [...]
Those were the days… With support of NIHA (Netherlands Institute for Higher Education Ankara), AEGEE-Ankara has successfully organized a summer university on sustainable living between the dates 18 August – 1 September 2009. It was an unforgettable event from many aspects. I had a chance to make my contribution by serving as facilitator during the [...]
After 1 month of disscussion & preperation, we came out with the idea of starting a youth initiative in Turkey on climate change. As many of you know, politicians and decision makers have not been so eager to take necessary measures up to now. But scientific reports underlines that we need urgent action. Young [...]
Turkish Climate Advocates have started to work at the kick-off meeting which was held on 11 June. Teambuilding and brainstorming sessions dominated the agenda. Upcoming meeting will take place in September where concrete project ideas will be finalized. The Challenge Europe Project aims of making a definite and lasting impact on the climate change debate, [...]
Excitement and eagerness to take action – The Turkish Team (I am one of the team members!) will start to work at a kick-off meeting which will be held on 11 June 2009 with the aims of making a definite and lasting impact on the climate change debate, and accelerating change to a low carbon [...]
Within the framework of Green Breakfast Seminar Series, we have successfully organized the seminar “Exploring Geothermal Energy Potential in the Middle East Anatolia Region” on June10th, 2009 . Main speakers were Prof. Dr. Şakir Şimşek – Head of Hacettepe University Department of Hydrogeology Engineering and Honorary Professor Orhan Mertoğlu – President of Turkish Geothermal Energy [...]
On 27th of May, Bahar Ubay – Project Manager from UNDP Turkey Office gave a speech at our office on “Capacity Building for Climate Change Management in Turkey: Why? & How?”. Nearly 30 participants from NGO’s, think-tanks, governmental institutions and private sector have participated to the speech which was followed by very fruitful debate on [...]
