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“Kulakkaya Climate Summit” organized in partnership with Bahçeşehir University and United Nations took place with the participation of United Nations (UN) Assistant Secretary-General Mr. Nikhil Seth and The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) International Education Center Turkey President Enver Yücel.
“Kulakkaya Climate Summit” took place in Kulakkaya Plateau, which is one of the most important touristic areas of Giresun. The Climate summit started with planting saplings and continued with the opening speeches after the ribbon cutting. In the summit organized in partnership with Bahçeşehir University and United Nations, solution proposals to the global climate problem and agriculture issues in Turkey were evaluated.
UN Assistant Secretary-General and The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) President Nikhil Seth remarked that Turkey is in an exemplary position among the world countries with its efforts to prevent climate change. Mayor of Giresun Aytekin Şenlikoğlu, Metropolitan Mayor of Ordu Dr. Mehmet Hilmi Güler, Governer of Giresun Enver Ünlü, General Vice President of Ak Party Nurettin Canikli, BAU Global President Enver Yücel, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Central Asia Sub-Region Turkey Deputy Representative Dr. Ayşegül Selışık also gave speeches.
UN Assistant Secretary-General Nikhil Seth touch upon the significance of Turkey in the fight against climate crises and said: “Every country is in a significant struggle to prevent climate crises. Like every country, Turkey also has a leadership quality in this topic and is in an exemplary country position. Turkey took an important stand by signing Paris Agreement. The totality of Turkey needs to have an awareness about climate change. Education is very important at this point, it shapes and changes the behaviors of both citizens and students. Therefore what BAU Global President Enver Yücel does is extremely valuable and important. We can only solve climate change if we move collectively.”
Noting the importance of creating awareness on climate change with education, Seth, “We have a partnership with Bahçeşehir University and our hope is for every school to have a curriculum about climate. If teachers draw attention to the horrible consequences of climate change then students will realize the issue and internalize it. The problem we are facing is extremely serious. The society also has responsibilities. The media has a significant duty to better announce the consequences and effects of climate change. Waste and energy minimization of citizens and encouragement to citizens on renewable energy are required. Especially about solar power. There are very beautiful potentials for us to move forward on the fight against climate change and it is needed to go forward."
The host of the program BAU Global President Enver Yücel expressed that they have goals about sustainable development at the climate summit organized in Kulakkaya Plateau, and said: “We want to explain the awareness on climate. We teach at our schools starting from an early age. We teach topics such as ‘What are sustainable development goals, how should they be?’ to our children from kindergarten. There will be meetings about climate and climate change with our teachers at our university, students, non-governmental organizations.
Yücel informed about the studies conducted on agriculture in Giresun and said, “Pandemic brought the changes of the world would have normally happened maybe in 15-20 years later, to the present day. Therefore it showed the people to take precautions about agriculture, sustainable development, and climate. We, as a university, are doing an application area about agriculture in Giresun. In this area, we want to raise the interest and concern of both our people and our students towards agriculture. Agricultural activity in Turkey needs to be much better. These are the responsibilities that fall upon universities. Alongside education, it needs to guide and give room to society’s problems.
In the summit alongside the UN, related ministries and institutions got together for the ‘climate crises’.
Attendees of the summit organized by Bahçeşehir University were; UN Assistant Secretary-General and The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) President Nikhil Seth, BAU Global President Enver Yücel, Director of UNITAR Human and Social Inclusion Division and Head of CIFAL Global Network Alex Mejia, Deputy Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Central Asia Sub-Region Turkey Deputy Representative Dr. Ayşegül Selışık and ITU Meteorology and Disaster Management Lect. Member Prof. Mikdat Kadıoğlu, UN Turkey delegation and representatives of institutions working in the field of Sustainable Development Goals, local administrators, and academics.
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