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.

 

News:

Report: Climate Science Panel Needs Change at Top
Fishing Threatens Marine Life in Princes' Islands Waters
Brazil Government Gives Go-Ahead for Huge Amazon Dam
France Drains Lake Under Mont Blanc Glacier
New Microbe Discovered Eating Gulf Oil Spill
Coral Doctor Sounds the Alarm About More Acidic Seas
Bypassing Resistance, Brazil Prepares to Build a Dam
Environmentally Responsible Business Awards
Environment Cuts: Fight to Preserve the Health of the Seas
Scientists: Summer Fires, Floods Augur Global Warming
Climate Change 'Partly to Blame' for Sweltering Moscow
Iceland and EU Battle Over Whaling Plans
The World's First Really Green Oil Deal
Computer Monitors Gain Environmental Credentials
Some Experts Skeptical of Gulf Oil Findings
Climate Deal Loopholes 'Make Farce' of Rich Nations' Pledges
Asia Demand 'Spurs Brazilian Shark Kills'
US Says It's Committed to Cutting Greenhouse Gases
Chernobyl Zone Shows Decline in Biodiversity
Galapagos Islands Taken off Unesco Danger List
Key Istanbul Drinking-Water Source Faces Pollution Threat
Global Warming Pushes 2010 Temperatures to Record Highs
Plankton Decline Across Oceans as Waters Warm
Companies May Find 'Green' Claims Challenged
12,500 Plastic Bottles Get Boat Across Pacific
Our Environment Is the Natural Foundation on Which Our Economy Is Built
Evil Weed in Baltic Sea Puts Marine Life at Risk
Climate Change Threatens Poverty Fight, Report Warns
Spain Overtakes US With World's Biggest Solar Power Station
Africa's National Parks Failing to Conserve Large Mammals, Study Shows
Feeling the Heat: Unlocking the Arctic's Frozen Secrets
Millions Face Starvation as Niger Prays in Vain for Rain
European Parliament Bans Illegal Timber
Solar Plane Completes Historic 24-hour Flight
Say What?! Whales Shout Over Noise Pollution
Young Visitors Learn Organic Farming in Turkey
Car Fumes Raise Spectre of 1980s Revival Nobody Wants...Acid Rain
EU Set to Ban Illegal Timber from 2012
Disaster Is Making US Think Again About Cleaner Energy
New Urbanization Bill to Cause Destruction in Turkey, Planners Warn
Rainfall Impacts of Climate Warming to Persist
Food Prices to Rise By Up to 40% Over Next Decade, UN Report Warns
Experts Urge a Global Perspective on Wind Energy
Alaska Objects to Polar Bear Habitat Plan
What's the Carbon Footprint of ... the World Cup?
UN FCCC Makes Major Step Towards Wetland Restoration
Snakes in Mysterious Global Decline
New UN Climate Chief Calls for More Ambition
Updated Pollution Data From Industrial Facilities Now Available in the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR)
Zero-waste Living Moves Into Mainstream
Coral Islands Bigger Despite Ocean's Rise
World Environment Day from Kigali to Pittsburgh on June 5
Severe Drought Causes Hunger For 10 Million in West Africa
China to Spend $1.8 Billion on Green Car Subsidies by 2012
2010 on Track to Become Warmest Year Ever
Tons of Illegally Caught Pearl Mullet Fish Confiscated Near Van
Sherpas Warn Ice Melt Is Making Everest 'Dangerous'
Environmentalists Object to Forestry Rules in U.N. Climate Text
Rare Sawfish Could Be Spill Casualty
Climate Talks Kick off With Squabbling
Man-made Climate Change Blamed for 'Significant' Rise in Ocean Temperature
UK 'Will Push EU on CO2 Targets'
Biggest Fish Very Vulnerable to Spill
Online Protest Drives Nestlé to Environmentally Friendly Palm Oil
'World's Biggest' Forest Protection Deal for Canada
Development at Bodrum's Kisebükü Cove Divides Locals
Calculations of Size of Gulf spill Are Questioned
'Unique' Frog Species Discovered by Scientists in India
Third Bosphorus Bridge Splits Clashing Sides
Europe to Examine Case for Bigger CO2 Cuts
Singapore Sand Imports Threaten Cambodian Ecosystem, Report Warns
UN Report: Planet Still Losing too Many Species
Gulf Spill: Worse Than Exxon Valdez?
World's 2010 Nature Target 'Will Not Be Met'
Istanbul's Third Bosphorus Bridge to Be Built at City's Northern Edge
Study to Measure Impact of Volcanic Ash on Marine Life
Cape Wind to bBecome America's First Offshore Windfarm
Warming Sign? Arctic Sees April Rain
Anger as Brazil Approves Amazon Rainforest Dam
Whaling Peace Plan to Go Forward This Year
‘Chunky Soup’ of Plastic in Atlantic
Global Warming Monitoring Needs to Find 'Missing Heat', Say Scientists
Brazil Amazon Dam Creates Headache for Lula
Great Barrier Reef Could Take 20 Years to Recover from Grounding
British Activist Keeps Passion for Environment in Dalyan
Bodrum Peninsula's Only Wetland at Risk of Perishing
British Campaigner Urges UN to Accept 'Ecocide' as International Crime
Solar-Powered Plane Soars Above Switzerland
'Coal Highway' Threatens Barrier Reef?
Has CITES Had Its Day?
U.N. Chief Shocked by Shrinking Lake
UK Sets up Chagos Islands Marine Reserve
EU Capped Carbon Emissions Drop Sharply in 2009
Barack Obama Eases Offshore Oil Drilling Ban
U.N.: Climate Goals Set, Pledges Weak
Restrictions on Boats in Göcek Lifted
Mysterious Whale Die-off is Largest on Record
Forest Loss Slows, as China Plants and Brazil Preserves
'Complete Collapse’ of Coral Possible
Rising Seas Settle Fight Over Isle
UN Body to Look at Meat and Climate Link
E.P.A. to Seek More Data on Emissions
Taking Action for World Water Day
Bluefin Tuna Ban Proposal Meets Rejection
US Proposal to Ban Polar Bear Trade Voted Down at UN Wildlife Meeting
Dolphinarium Plans Create Major Protest
Nestle Says Drops Palm Oil Supplier After Report
Shark Protection Plan Defeated
Climate 'Fix' Could Poison Sea Life
Ölüdeniz to Get Its First Dolphinarium
Bluefin Tuna Trade Ban Gains European Union Backing
UN Brings in Top Scientists to Review IPCC Report on Himalayan Glaciers
EU 'Imports' a Third of Its Carbon Emissions
China and India Join Copenhagen Accord
Humans Must Be to Blame for Climate Change, Say Scientists
Glacier Melting a Key Clue to Tracking Climate Change
More Blue Flags and Clean Beaches Expected for Turkey in 2010
Do Fence Me in: 250-mile Barrier Helps Protect Kenyan Water Sources
Vast Antarctic Iceberg 'Threatens Marine Life'
World's Temperature Record to Be Re-analysed
Big Business Leaves Big Forest Footprints
Ancient Glaciers Are Disappearing Faster Than Ever
UN Chief Praises Climate Summit
U.N. Climate Summit Dims Hopes for Copenhagen Pact
One Day, All Houses Will Be Built This Way
Europe Fails to Agree on Bluefin Tuna Ban
'Millions At Risk' As Deltas Sink
Brazil Proposes Banning Sugarcane in Amazon
Clean Energy to Create More Jobs Than Coal: Study
CO2 Is Not the Only Cause of Climate Change
'Lost Seabird' Returns to Ocean
EU Proposes Climate Risk Billions
Study: Warming Has ‘Severely Perturbed’ Arctic
France’s Sarkozy Pushes Ahead With Unpopular Carbon Tax
Call for Cap on Aviation Emissions
Global Warming Has Made Arctic Summers Hottest For 2,000 Years
We Are Heading Towards An Abyss’
Climate Targets 'Will Kill Coral'
EU Wants More on Climate From China, Lauds Japan
Captured on Film: Dolphin Bloodbath Japan Tries to Hide
Aegean Pollutes by Transportation, Central Anatolia by Residences
Growth of Ocean ‘Garbage Patch’ Alarms Experts
Organic Agriculture Craves Development
Blocked Rivers Threaten Livelihood of Brazilian Tribes
World's Ocean Temps Are Warmest on Record
Plastic Decomposes Quickly at Sea, Study Finds
Climate Change Threatens Central American Coffee
Environmentalists Hope UN Talks Tough on Climate Change
How Aviation Can Clean Up Its Act
'Slaughter' Fear Over Poaching Rise
Climate Change Melting US Glaciers at Faster Rate, Study Finds
Voyage to Study Plastic 'Island'
Battle for Europe's Last Ancient Forest
Fish Stocks Can Recover If Well Managed, Says Study
Kenya to Evict Squatters in Key Forest, Watershed
Butterflies Tracked as Environmental Barometer
World Powers Accept Warming Limit
British Palm Oil Firm Accused of Bankrolling Indonesian Rainforest Destruction
Climate Scientists Warn of Wild Weather In the Year Ahead As El Niño Begins
Help Call for Vanishing Honeybees
Just 96 Months to Save World, Says Prince Charles
Shrinking of Scottish Sheep Tied to Warming
Istanbul's Green Space Disappearing
Whaling Peace Talks 'To Continue'
Solar Power to Challenge In Europe by 2010
American Shoppers Misled by Greenwash, Congress Told
EU Must Act Now to Hit Energy Saving Goal: Report
Climate Change Divides the Alps Down the Middle
Airlines 'Must Take Initiative' Before Climate-Change Talks, Warns BA Boss
River Faces Pollution Catastrophe
Environment Still Needs A Lot of Care
Rainforest Is Worth More Standing
Brazil Approves Amazon Hydro-Power Dam
World Bank: Ex-Soviets Hit By Climate Change
Plants 'Can Recognise Themselves'
Greenwash: E-waste Trade Is the Unacceptable Face of Recycling
Report: Carbon Pollution to Grow by 40 Percent
Prince Urges Action Over Climate
Environmental Games Under Way
Amazon Basin Braces for ‘Extreme Climate’
Solar Power Could Surge by 2050 in Deserts: Study
Wader Populations Decline Faster Than Ever
Owls Replace Pesticides in Israel
EU and China Pledge New Ties on Trade, Climate
Animal Biodiversity Keeps People Healthy
Drought Concerns Finally Over in Manyas
Poorest Need Funds to Combat Climate Change: Report
Barack Obama's Climate Change Bill Is Weakened, But Still Intact
'Rebound Effects' of Energy Efficiency Could Halve Carbon Savings, Says Study
Water From Tropical Storms Might Impact Warming
Going Bananas for Energy in Africa
Measures for Forest Fires Taken Beforehand
Whaling Peace Talks 'Fall Short'
Death in the Orchard of Eden
Wild Fruit Trees Face Extinction
China Ready for Post-Kyoto Deal on Climate Change
EU Ban Looms Over Seal Products
Arctic CO2 Levels Growing at An Unprecedented Rate', Say Scientists
U.S. Pledges to Make Up for Lost Time in Climate Fight
Gray Whales Granted Rare Reprieve
G8 and Poor Nations Vow to Tackle Species Loss
Saving the Planet by Numbers
The Research Ship 'Akdeniz Su' Put to Sea
Oxfam Warns of Climate Disasters
Climate Change Drying Up Big Rivers, Study Finds
Key Role of Forests 'May Be Lost'
EU Greenhouse Emissions Fall - Because It's Warmer
Environmentalists React Against Building of Hotel
US Moves Toward Climate Change Rules
Overfishing to Wipe Out Bluefin Tuna: WWF
Dirty Energy Threat to Green Brazil
New Indonesian Orang-utan Population Discovered
Urgent Action a Must to Keep Aegean Clean
Eco-warrior Sets Sail to Save Oceans from 'Plastic Death'
Obama, Who Vowed Rapid Action on Climate Change, Turns More Cautious
Prize for 'Sun in the Box' Cooker
Obama Climate Pledges Get Cautious EU Welcome
Hopes for Climate Treaty Set Back by G20's Weasel Words
Bottled Water Carries Hidden Cost to Earth
Ice Bridge Ruptures in Antarctic
Siemens' Crisis Response: A New 'Green' Factory
Earth Population 'Exceeds Limits'
As Climate Changes, Is Water the New Oil?
A Green School For Greener Future
'It's Like Virtual Tourism – I Was in Ecuador Yesterday!'
World Water Forum About Profit, Not Conservation, NGOs Say
Global Crisis 'To Strike by 2030'
Melting of Antarctic Ice Becoming Unstoppable
Global Forum Seeks to Avert Water Crisis
Ten Ways to Save the World
Save The Historic Tree, Say Ecologists
Growing Pollution Leads to "Global Dimming"
Mekong River Hydroelectric Dam Threatens Livelihoods and Endangered Species in Landlocked Laos
Climate Scenarios 'Being Realised'
Oil 'Disaster' Hits Prime Australian Beaches
World's Most Endangered Mammal, Javan Rhino, Captured on Camera
No to Tree-Cutting Plan
Amazon's 2005 Drought Created Huge CO2 Emissions
Climate 'Hitting Europe's Birds'
Reforming Biofuels
Explorers Begin Epic Arctic Trek
Undersea Bombs Threaten Marine Life
Great Clean-up - Can Economic Rescue Plans Also Save Planet?
Lifeline for Endangered Albatross
Urla to Host Underwater Archeopark
Greenpeace Presents Climate-Friendly Energy Guide for Mayoral Candidates
Environment Ministers to Tackle Mercury Pollution
Alarming Decision to Destroy Indonesia’s Last Peatswamp Forests
Dam the Rivers, Ddamn the Critics
World's Largest Wetland Threatened in Brazil
Ivory Trade Hits Asia's Elephants
Bleak Forecast on Fishery Stocks
Coal-fired Power Stations Are Death Factories. Close Them
Tracking Home Energy Use with Google
Nicholas Stern: Spend billions on Green Investments Now to Reverse Economic Downturn and Halt Climate Change
Dolphins Rescued off Philippines
Greenpeace Hails İzmir for Ecology Commitment
Climate Change Nudges American Birds Northward
Australia Fires a Climate Wake-up Call - Experts
Kyoto Ushers in New Era for Turkey
At Long Last Turkey Signs Kyoto Protocol
EU Gives Shark Protection Teeth
'Strong Arm' Tactics to Get India to Agree to Strict Emissions Cuts Criticised
"Green Growth" Puts Climate Spending in Focus
Time Running Out for Turkish Wetlands, Warn NGOs
World's Major Fishing Nations Failing on Sustainability
Obama 'To Act Over Car Emissions'
Green Buildings Not Distant Dream
Living on Thin Ice
Antarctic Sea Creatures Hypersensitive to Warming
Europe Wants U.S. to Join Carbon Trading Market
Diverse Roots of Human Disease
War Against Ivory Trade Takes to the Sea
Old Forests Lose With Legislation
Light Pollution Forms 'Eco-traps'
Heathrow Third Runway Reaction
President 'Has Four Years to Save Earth'
Runway-loving Birds Are Risk to Planes in Antarctica
Organic Produce to Feed Turkey in Crisis
Environment Articles: Top in 2008
Ozone Protection Feels the Heat
Climate Scientists: It's Time for 'Plan B'
eBay Bans Sale of Ivory Products
Food Needs 'Fundamental Rethink'
Green Revolution Stalls on Cheap Oil
No Furnaces But Heat Aplenty in ‘Passive Houses’
Wanted: Natural Residents to Share Up-and-Coming Urban Quarter
Climate Change: Poznan Conference Must Shift Negotiations On a New Global Climate Deal into Higher Gear
70% Deforestation Cuts for Brazil
Is This the End of the Bluefin Tuna?
Antarctic Seas Richer in Life Than Galapagos Islands, Study Claims
Recipe for Rescuing Our Reefs
The Ecological Credit Crunch
Last Chance for the Oceans?
Thirsty World: Desperate Quest for Water
RSPO Certified Palm Oil İgnores Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Arctic Sea Ice at Lowest Level Ever
Populations of Migratory Waterbirds Are Declining Along the African-Eurasian Flyways
Global Warming: Sea Level Rises May Accelerate Due to Melting Ice Sheet
Water Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Grow
Brazil: Deforestation Rises Sharply as Farmers Push Into Amazon
Climate 'Hockey Stick' Is Revived
Fireflies in Decline as Natural Habitats Are Destroyed
'We' Climate Campaign: Glossy, But Will It Work?
Rising Demands Threaten Wetlands
Wildlife: A Luxury We Can Live Without?
Invasion of the Jellyfish: Mediterranean on Alert As Hundreds Suffer From Stings
Drivers 'Unaware of Emission Levels'
Energy: Coal-Fired Power Stations Will Lock UK into a High-Emissions Future, Say MPs
Raising the New Roof
Last flight of the honeybee?
Act on climate change, top scientists warn US
Ecosystem destruction costing hundreds of billions a year
Loss of biodiversity threatens livelihoods of world's poorest
G8 frustrates green groups
Overpopulation could be people, planet problem
 

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