IKV Secretary General Assoc. Prof. Çiğdem Nas participated in the webinar entitled “Alignment with the Green Deal: Where Are We in the Transformation?” hosted by the Dünya Newspaper on 7 October 2021. Other speakers of the webinar, which was moderated by Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dünya Newspaper Hakan Güldağ, included Istanbul Chamber of Industry (ICI) Chairman Erdal Bahçıvan, Head of the EU Delegation to Turkey Ambassador Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, Head of the Department for International Relations at the Digital Transformation Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey Dr. Safa Uslu, Head of the Department for Single Market, Competition and Technical Legislation Department at the Directorate General for International Agreements and EU of the Ministry of Trade Mehmet Ergünal, Founding Director of the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) Dr. Güven Sak and Managing Director of GazDay Energy Consultancy Mehmet Doğan. The speakers shared their views on the steps and measures Turkey has taken to ensure alignment with the European Green Deal, and discussed the future steps for green transformation as well as the recent developments in their respective fields.

Emphasizing that alignment with the Green Deal could not be conducted through instructions from a single center, IKV Secretary General Nas highlighted the need for cooperation and for different organisations to work together with public institutions, and pointed out to the fact that the change should include all actors and sectors as it involved the entire supply chain. Referring to the importance of awareness raising by non-governmental organizations on the topic, Assoc. Prof. Nas stated that IKV was making an effort to raise awareness on the green transformation but this effort would only be sufficient to a certain extent. Finally, stressing the need to adopt policies and recommendations on how a just transformation would be achieved and how sectors would adapt to it, Assoc. Prof. Nas underlined that it was important that decision-makers managed the process in cooperation with businesses.