As part of their mission, the Technology Development Foundation of Turkey (TTGV) plays an active role in the environmental field in protecting ecological systems with a perspective of sustainability while supporting technologically innovative activities. In other words, since the day TTGV was founded, it has been emphasizing the connection and interaction of concepts like Research and Development, Innovation and Competitiveness with Sustainability, Eco-innovation and Environmental Management.
TTGV whose collaborations with national and international shareholders executes management projects and programs from different sectors and offers financial support to industry developed environmental projects. To this day, in the environmental field TTGV has been the beneficiary of different international funds like the World Bank, the United Nations and the European Union, but the industry establishment management program, namely the “TTGV Environmental Support Programme”, which was started in 2006, continues its services with its own resources.
Environmental Technologies Support
The elementary goal of Environmental Technologies Support Programme is to support implementation projects for cleaner production technology applications which are applicable and economically valuable. This goal is included as part of the concept of eco-efficiency (cleaner production) that during production processes the minimum amount of consumption of energy, water, and raw material and the minimum amount of waste production.
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Energy Efficiency Support
The Energy Efficiency Support Programme was initiated against Turkey’s rising energy costs in the world with the purpose of providing protection in particular for the competitive power of energy-intensive sectors, the reduction of foreign dependency and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Within the scope of energy efficiency support programme, energy efficiency implementation projects including energy efficiency audits are aimed to be supported.
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Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (ODS) Elimination Project Support
After the Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (ODS) Elimination Project finished in the year 2007, continued support has been given to projects that work to recycle CFC-11, CFC-12, CFC-113, R-500 and other CFC and coolant gases. In order to obtain support and application criteria you can contact us at this address cevre@ttgv.org.tr.
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EU 7. Framework Programme - Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Project
Today, the consumption and production habits of industrializing societies are changing at a rapid pace and these activities have caused serious environmental problems (global warming, decrease in biodiversity, etc.) to become a current issue. When evaluating the different environmental effects and the different natural resource consumption that occurs during the production/consumption of every product or every step of the service (manufacturing, transportation, product use, waste disposal etc.) a difficult structure emerges.
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UNIDO Eco-efficiency (Cleaner Production) Programme
Under the leadership of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), since the year 1994, 45 countries have applied the Cleaner Production (Eco-Efficiency) Program. In Turkey, the program was started as a sub-program of the 2008 enforced MDG-F 1680 “Enhancing the Capacity of Turkey to Adapt to Climate Change” United Nations Joint Programme, supported by the Spanish Government.
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Global Environment Facility (GEF) Industrial Energy Efficiency Project
The 2006-2010 Global Environment Facility (GEF) budget, or the GEF-4, has allocated approximately 17 million USA dollars in grant money for project proposals in Turkey that focus on areas of climate change. A project prepared through the cooperation of TTGV, the Electrical Power Resources Survey and Development Administration (EIE), the United Nations Development Programme, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), on the topic “The Increase in Industrial Energy Efficiency” has been approved by the GEF.
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Native Energy Technologies R&D Platform
Under the leadership of OSTIM INVESTMENT, the Native Energy Technologies R&D Platform started its work after a cooperative signing of a protocol by the General Directorate of Energy Works of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, the Electricity Generation Cooperation (EUAS) and Technology Development Foundation of Turkey (TTGV) on 21 January, 2010.
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Determination of the Framework Conditions and Research-Development Needs for the Dissemination of Cleaner (Sustainable) Production Applications in Turkey Project
In 2009, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry initiated the “Determination of the Framework Conditions and Research-Development Needs for the Dissemination of Cleaner (Sustainable) Production Applications in Turkey Project”. Its aims were to create infrastructure for a road map of the dissemination of cleaner (sustainable) production in Turkey. The project was conducted on behalf of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry by TTGV, under the consultation of Prof. Dr. Göksel Demirer.
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