The panel "From Zero Waste to COP31: Türkiye's Climate Diplomacy", organised by the Directorate of Communications and hosted by its head Prof. Dr. Burhanettin Duran, was held in Ankara, with opening remarks by COP31 President Murat Kurum.
Kurum said zero waste, which visitors will experience throughout the COP venue, would also be one of the main topics in the negotiations. The targets he set out are to at least halve the expected growth in global municipal waste generation by 2035 and to raise the circular material use rate to at least 15% by the same year. He described COP31 as a meeting that will host 85 leaders, close to 300 ministers and 1.5 million visitors.
Prof. Dr. Halil Hasar, COP31 Chief Climate Diplomacy Official and President of the Climate Change Directorate, stressed that COP is not an event or an organisation but an important decision-making body where decisions concerning countries' development plans are taken, adding: "Antalya will be the COP of implementation."
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