
Supreme Court's green cartridge restriction violated in many places
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New Delhi is one of the capital cities with the highest air pollution in the world. The use of firecrackers is common during the Diwali festival and this year the Supreme Court had allowed the limited use of 'green' firecrackers, which create less pollution.
Millions of people celebrate this festival with fireworks in New Delhi, one of the capitals with the highest air pollution in the world. And this; Vehicle emissions, stubble fires and industry-fueled pollution make winter haze even worse.
A Supreme Court ruling this month allowed limited use of "green" fireworks designed to cause less air pollution during the Diwali festival, but the restriction has been flouted in many places.

Muğla Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ahmet Aras will represent Muğla at the 31st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP31) to be held in Antalya. Aras will participate in official negotiations in the Blue Zone and sessions held in the pavilions of UCLG, ICLEI, EU, Japan, Akdeniz, Türkiye, Spain and ILBANK. Muğla's climate adaptation policies, water security, resilience of rural and coastal cities and climate finance issues will be on the agenda. The municipality will introduce its sample projects at the Union of Municipalities of Türkiye Stand on November 19 and will provide transportation support to the organization with 10 buses.

Türkiye is hosting a COP organization for the first time with the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which will be held in Antalya between 9-20 November. 95 country leaders and 7 international organization leaders will attend the summit. Türkiye's vision was determined as 'Implementation COP'.

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