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Call for Law, Responsibility and Participation for Multidimensional Transformation in the Fight against Sustainability and Climate Crisis
01 May 2025In the ÇEVKO Foundation's interview, he emphasized that youth, industry and academia need a multi-dimensional system change. Climate law and circular economy practices stood out among common solutions. A call for responsibility was made for the present, not the future.
The online interviews organized by ÇEVKO Foundation, which brings together the identities of an expert industrial initiative and an active non-governmental organization, in cooperation with the Global Warming Congress Committee, continue in their 5th year. The second of the talks organized in 2025 under the title "Latest Developments in Climate Change and Sustainability" took place on April 28, 2025.
The speakers of the conversation, moderated by Celal Toprak, Chairman of the Global Warming Congress Committee, were ÇEVKO Foundation Secretary General Mete İmer, Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Communication Dean Prof. Dr. Itır Erhart, Akcansa Sustainability Manager Erhan Çalışkan and Climate Pioneers Founder Melisa Akkuş.
The main axis of the conversation was shaped around sustainable waste management in the circular economy, legal regulations to support industrial responsibility, climate justice and youth participation in decision-making processes. While the need for a climate law is strongly emphasized in Turkey; This need was addressed multidimensionally from the perspectives of civil society, academia, industry and youth.
SPP Model Both Protects the Environment and Contributes to the Economy
ÇEVKO Foundation Secretary General Mete İmer, who emphasizes the importance of sustainable waste management in the circular economy, said: "Although the "upcycling" process, which describes a more effective and efficient recycling as a result of the evaluation of waste, seems to be the last process in the circular economy circle, it should actually be planned and designed with eco-design at the "sustainable production" stage. In the circular economy, where post-consumption waste is collected separately at the source and evaluated as raw materials, the "producer" sits at the wheel. "If the Extended Producer Responsibility model is used in financing and organization, an efficient and sustainable system can be established," he said.
Mete İmer continued his words as follows: "In the circular economy, which can be considered as a tool to combat the climate crisis, producers become responsible not only for selling products, but also for the environmental impacts of their products, with the Extended Producer Responsibility model. This system makes it possible to re-evaluate the collected waste as secondary raw materials. As ÇEVKO Foundation, we constantly emphasize the importance of re-establishing and implementing a traceable, verifiable and transparent SPP model in our country."
Sustainability Is Not Possible Without Recognizing the Rights of Non-Human Creatures
Climate Challenge and Youth Participation in the Industrial Sector
Akçansa Sustainability Manager Erhan Çalışkan emphasized that the industrial sector's fight against climate change should go beyond volunteering. Çalışkan said, "If we continue to increase our emissions while constantly talking about the climate crisis, there is a serious sincerity problem here. There is no legal regulation requiring greenhouse gas reduction in industry in Turkey. Emission reduction is still voluntary. This approach must change; it must be supported by binding targets and strong regulations."
Çalışkan reminded that in the long-term climate strategy announced in November 2023, a 30% emission reduction is targeted for the cement sector by 2040 and a 93% emission reduction by 2053, and stated that structural reforms such as climate law and emission trading system are essential to achieve these targets. He explained that Akçansa makes pioneering practices in the fields of circular economy and sustainability, with examples such as alternative fuel use, resource efficiency studies and artificial reef projects.
Evaluating the approach of young people to the climate crisis, Climate Pioneers Founder Melisa Akkuş said, "We spent our childhood in this struggle. If we do not change today, there will be no need to talk about tomorrow. Young people should have an effective and equal say at the management tables. We watch with concern the delay of the climate law. We run campaigns and lobby to be active in the field and decision-making mechanisms. We do not wait for change; we take action to be the change itself."
With the call letter that will be made public in the coming days, the participation of youth councils and rights-based non-governmental organizations in the climate law process will be encouraged.
ÇEVKO Foundation's "Latest Developments in Climate Change and Sustainability" conversation, which once again demonstrated the need for transformation not only in technical information sharing but also in the way of expression in the fight against the climate crisis, where youth, industry, academia and civil society met with different languages but with a common concern, was recorded as an important call to take more effective legal steps on this issue.
You can also watch the conversation titled "Latest Developments in Climate Change and Sustainability", prepared by the ÇEVKO Foundation in cooperation with the Global Warming Congress Committee, on the ÇEVKO Foundation's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HiKKgSE2cc
About ÇEVKO Foundation
ÇEVKO Environmental Protection and Packaging Waste Utilization Foundation was established on November 1, 1991, to contribute to the establishment and development of a sustainable recycling system in Turkey. ÇEVKO Foundation, a pioneer in its field, not only cooperates with municipalities and economic enterprises for the separate collection and recycling of post-consumer packaging waste at the source, but also focuses on studies to increase social awareness and awareness on these issues. In recent years, ÇEVKO Foundation has also focused on the transition to a circular economy and the fight against climate change in Turkey. It strives to implement the sustainable production, sustainable consumption and upcycling processes of the circular economy and to raise awareness in society about climate change adaptation and mitigation. ÇEVKO Foundation, which obtained the right to use the international "Green Dot" brand in Turkey in 2003, is also a member of extended producer responsibility organizations in its field in Europe.
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