President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan offered the guide “Türkiye’s Zero Waste Journey for a Livable World” ready by the Presidency’s Directorate of Communications to the heads of state and leaders on the G-20 Leaders’ Summit in India.
With the presentation of the guide, Erdoğan emphasised the significance of world solidarity with a purpose to achieve success within the struggle in opposition to the “triple planet crises” comprising of local weather change, lack of biodiversity and air pollution, and mentioned: “However, international solidarity is gradually eroding, and cooperation is being replaced by self-centered approaches. All of humanity, especially the disadvantaged countries in Africa and Asia, are paying the price. Compared to developed countries, our country has almost no share in the problems cited as the causes of climate change and pollution. Despite this, as Türkiye, we both fulfill our own obligations and support the work carried out at the global level on this vital issue that concerns the common future of our world and humanity.”
Pointing out that Türkiye made crucial contribution to the Paris Climate Agreement with its 2053 Net Zero Emission and Green Development targets, Erdoğan continued: “With this understanding, we launched hopeful initiatives for both our country and humanity with the ‘Green Development Revolution and 2053 Net Zero Emission’ targets. The Zero Waste Project, implemented under the leadership of my wife Emine Erdoğan, was a turning point in this process. Our project, carried out with the motto of ‘The World is Our Common Home’, was appreciated by the whole world, and was deemed worthy of a total of five international awards, three of which were from United Nations offices and programs.”
With the U.N. General Assembly decision 77/161 adopted by Türkiye’s efforts, the Zero Waste Project has become a worldwide motion, and with this determination, the International Zero Waste Day is well known on March 30 yearly. Reminding that it was declared as the primary day of the Republic of Türkiye, President Erdoğan added: “We will continue to add new ones to the works widely carried out to provide a breath of life and hope for the future. In this period, as we approach the 100th anniversary of the founding of our republic, the ‘Türkiye’s Zero Waste Journey for a Livable World’ has been prepared by our Directorate of Communications. The book ‘Zero Waste Journey’ is one of them. I congratulate those who have contributed to the preparation of this important work, which includes Türkiye’s contributions to the common future of humanity.”
The guide, which incorporates detailed details about the Zero Waste Project initiated by first woman Emine Erdoğan, contains 4 chapters: Waste Management, Environmental Problems, Institutional Structure Regarding Waste Management and Legal Regulations Regarding Waste Management in Türkiye.
In the guide, it’s emphasised that the cooperation of the private and non-private sectors is extraordinarily vital with a purpose to get rid of environmental issues in favor of humanity, and the need of worldwide cooperation on the bilateral, regional and multilateral ranges, along with nationwide efforts with the participation of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society.
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