Addressing the COP31 Leaders’ Summit, President Erdoğan said: “From energy to industry, and transport to agriculture, we are guided by green transition across all the sectors in our economy, restructuring them with the aim of decorbanization. We are increasing our renewable energy investments, boosting energy efficiency, and promoting clean transport solutions.”
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech at the COP31 Leaders' Summit Opening Event in Antalya.
President Erdoğan said: “Respect for nature lies at the heart of our civilization. Earth is a sacred trust that must be protected and cared for. We are a nation that deems even hurting an ant a sinful infringement and that sticks to the principle that one must plant the last remaining sapling in his possession even if he knows the next day is the doomsday. Our ancestors said, ‘he who cuts down a green tree cuts off a living head,’ to emphasize that cutting down a healthy tree is tantamount to killing a human being. This culture, which considers bread as fertility, water as holy, and a tree as life, serves as our compass in our environmental and climate policies. This is how we as Türkiye approach the issue. Properly fulfilling our responsibilities in the fight against climate change, we are working to become a part of the solution rather than the problem. We are taking every detail of environmental factors into consideration as we plan our development goals and energy security. We determinedly continue our Green Development journey in line with our net-zero emissions target for 2053.”
President Erdoğan stated: “From energy to industry, and transport to agriculture, we are guided by green transition across all the sectors in our economy, restructuring them with the aim of decorbanization. We are increasing our renewable energy investments, boosting energy efficiency, and promoting clean transport solutions. We have increased the share of renewable energy sources in our installed electricity capacity to over 60%. We have strengthened the legal and institutional foundation of this structural transformation with the climate law we enacted. We have launched a water efficiency mobilization to protect every single drop of water, our lifespring.”
