ecology

The Brazilian Presidency had promised that COP30 in Belém would be the “COP of truth” and “COP of implementation”, held in the spirit of Mutirão with the global community working together to face the climate emergency. It faced a reckoning instead.

Agroecology in Turkey is more than a set of farming techniques; it is a battleground of ideas. Competing narratives are shaping who controls food systems, how communities thrive, and what the countryside will look like tomorrow.

Europe stands at a crossroads. Should it build its trade relations on fundamental values such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and labor rights—or align them with geopolitical interests? In our recent panel held in Berlin, we discussed the role of supply chains in German-Turkish relations.

Knowledge about how to farm is never static, it shifts with changing realities. In the Anatolian village of Karagömlek, rural depopulation and industrial inputs reshape local farming. This article explores, why Agroecology offers a critical perspective for the future.

The system involved an estimated 500,000 waste collectors nationwide and accounted for about 80 percent of the country’s recycling in 2022. That year, the Turkish government also launched an initiative to regulate this work, though with limited success due to its strict requirements.

In terms of both population distribution and water resources, İstanbul is divided between eastern and western water basins, or Asian and European districts, the latter of which faces several challenges in distributing water resources. 

Across the Mediterranean region, rising temperatures and shifting rain patterns are exacerbating wildfire risks. The 2021 blazes represent a warning for Turkey, which was unequipped and understaffed to quickly bring the fires under control.

Yet a closer look at these images shows few young faces among the protestors. The same is true for other recent acts of environmental activism in Turkey.

Experts say minimizing the flow of new organic materials into the sea – like phosphorus and nitrogen which constitute fertilizer for phytoplankton and algae – is the most important factor in preventing future outbreaks. 

Farmers, officials and food safety experts said the banned pesticide chlorpyrifos is still used in Turkey due to weak regulations and lackluster enforcement, threatening the public health.

Fish populations in the Black Sea have been increasingly impacted by ecological interference, often in the form of construction or regional development, and also climate change. 

The reflections on health-nutrition-ecology relationships through food and farming bring us to never questioned before reality in organic farming as well as the accessibility of foods to those who grow them – the smallholder farmers, and the majority of consumers. 

Turkey, as a major country in the EU neighbourhood, highly relevant to EU-China green relations. Renewable energy is at the centre of how the EU-China competition-collaboration nexus unfolds in Turkey, and is directly affected by the country’s macroeconomic and political dynamics.

On the night of 6 February 2022, two devastating earthquakes hit south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria. As of now, at least 40.000 people have died, and it is feared that the number of victims will increase drastically. We have compiled a list of organisations to which you can donate in the different affected areas.

The Egyptian military dictatorship hosting this year's COP poses a political challenge for all participants. But upon close inspection, reference points for demanding human rights emerge.

Rich nations must prove they are willing to hold up their end of the climate bargain of the Paris Agreement at COP27

The Inflation Reduction Act is seen as an expression of climate pragmatism by some and a Faustian bargain with the fossil fuel industry by others. What exactly is it?

The causes of the current global gas crisis are now well understood. Europe finds itself the convergence zone of two supply challenges, related to a shortfall of pipeline supplies and simultaneously an inability to attract deliveries of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Consequently, going into winter storage levels are low, and prices are extremely high. But the UK has been singled out as being more vulnerable than most, why is this so and what lessons can be learnt from the current situation?

COP26 takes place against the backdrop of nationalist health policies with daunting consequences, failed promises to adequately scale up climate action and financial support, and an unprecedented push for false solutions that divert global attention from the urgent need to phase out fossil fuels.

Several cities and provinces in Vietnam are reopening after a so-called tragic fourth wave of COVID-19. Along with societal and economic losses, waste generated from daily routines and medical facilities has become a huge consequence and the country must learn how to deal with the overwhelming waste.