Environment:

Our Priority

The social responsibility
project, called "Environment:
Our Priority" which is carried
out by TSKB, aims at
increasing the social
environmental awareness,
and comprises some
complementary activities.

As the first Turkish Bank
to obtain an ISO 14001
environment certification, TSKB
has been involved in important
environment related activities
in Turkey through the loans
extended for the projection of the
enviroment as well as the
loans provided for investments
in renewable energy.

stop global warming

U.N. Climate Summit Dims Hopes for Copenhagen Pact

23.09.2009 Reuters

OSLO/LONDON (Reuters) - A summit of world leaders has dimmed hopes for a strong new U.N. climate pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen in December, with details looking ever more likely to be left for 2010.

But climate change experts and observers also refused to focus on the negative, noting that many countries struggling with recession were likely to make concessions only at the last moment.

At the one-day U.N. summit Tuesday, leaders spoke strongly of a need for action to combat climate change but made few new pledges of domestic action. China won praise for outlining curbs on its rising emissions for 2020.

"Leaders want to signal a willingness to act, but everyone is in this game of chicken," said Susanne Droege, of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.

"The good news (from Copenhagen) would be to have an international carpet laid out for further steps," she said.

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