Ibb Conducts Climate Planning of Local Municipalities

08 Jul 2022

IMM provides consultancy services to local municipalities on combating the global climate crisis. Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, which has prepared a "Climate Action Plan" to increase the energy efficiency of cities, recently reached an agreement with Edirne Municipality. In this context, IMM will prepare the climate plan in line with Edirne Municipality's "carbon neutral" target.

İstanbul Enerji AŞ, a subsidiary of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM), continues its work on the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP) prepared for local governments. Istanbul Energy, which previously provided consultancy services to Büyükçekmece and Çorlu Municipalities on renewable energy issues, recently cooperated with Edirne Municipality.

The SECAP promotion program, held at Edirne Municipality Atatürk Cultural Center, took place with the participation of many institutions and organizations such as academicians, professional chambers, members of the chamber of commerce and industry, neighborhood headmen. Edirne Mayor Recep Gürkan and Istanbul Energy General Manager Yüksel Yalçın signed a cooperation protocol within the scope of the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan.

ONE DEGREE TEMPERATURE INCREASE CHANGES THE WORLD

Referring to the importance of cooperation with local governments in energy and climate studies, Istanbul Enerji AŞ General Manager Yüksel Yalçın said, "Our Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan studies are very important in this respect. Especially after the 2000s, we all see how even a plus one degree increase changes the world. Sustainable Climate Action Plan (SECAP) is one of the areas of responsibility of local governments. In this context, academics "We provide consultancy to local governments with our expert engineer staff," he said.

OUR TARGET IS CARBON NEUTRAL

Edirne Mayor Recep Gürkan pointed out the importance of this process initiated together with Istanbul Energy and said; "Our goal is a carbon neutral city. We plan to reach this goal in 2050. If we cannot reach carbon neutrality, our children and grandchildren will not be able to live in a world like we live in. This is the clear thing," he said.

Clean energy studies will be carried out in cooperation with Istanbul Energy and Edirne Municipality in line with the 2050 carbon neutral target.

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