AK Party Women's Branch brings climate solutions to the agenda at COP31

AK Party Headquarters Women's Branch organizes panels, interviews, workshops and exhibition programs discussing women's contributions to climate policies, sustainable development and green transformation at its stand in the "Green Zone Zero Waste Hub" area, within the scope of the 31st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP31) held in Antalya.

Additionally, sessions are held at the Türkiye Women's Pavilion and Türkiye Pavilion in the Blue Zone during the summit.

AK Party Headquarters Women's Branch President and COP31 Women's Ambassador Tuğba Işık Ercan, in her statement to the AA correspondent in the stand area, said that they are always together with women and that they carry out training and awareness activities for women.

Emphasizing that the role of "COP31 Women Ambassador" is very valuable, Ercan said, "We know that the most important people affected by climate change are actually women and children. Therefore, we believe that the more we raise women's awareness about climate change and zero waste, the better the result will be." he said.

Stating that participants, panelists, state leaders and leading figures of governments from all over the world came together at COP31, Ercan said, "We will do our best to spread all the results from here to our 81 provinces and to our women around the world." he said.

"(Zero waste) We certified 45 thousand women"

Ercan stated that they organize awareness activities for women about zero waste.

Emphasizing that the education given to women affects the whole family, therefore they attach importance to awareness-raising activities for women, Ercan said:

"On this issue, zero waste trainings were given in 81 provinces with the support of our Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change. In these trainings, we certified, trained and raised awareness of 45 thousand women. We think that the reflection of this will be much better in the next period. We think that its contribution to climate change will also be significantly beneficial."

Ercan stated that they prepared the stand with great care and said that visitors to the stand said "it was touched by women's hands".

Stating that they wanted the stand to look aesthetically special, Ercan noted that with the materials prepared with a zero waste approach in line with the meaning and importance of COP31, nothing is actually waste, the materials can be recycled and they emphasized the sustainability of this transformation.