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Regulation on Local Climate Change Action Plans and Provincial Climate Change Coordination Boards

🇹🇷Türkiye··Regulation·High Impact0·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This regulation sets the rules for preparing, approving, carrying out, monitoring, and reporting local climate change action plans at provincial level in Turkey. These plans must support Turkey’s net-zero emissions goal, national climate commitments, and wider planning tools, with a focus on both cutting greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate risks. It also defines how provincial climate change coordination boards will work and assigns responsibilities to public bodies, local authorities, and other relevant institutions. For municipalities, provincial administrations, public agencies, and businesses involved in local planning, infrastructure, energy, transport, construction, or environmental reporting, the practical effect is more structured local climate planning and closer monitoring through digital systems such as the Climate Portal and E-YİDEP.

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Key Changes

  • Creates a formal framework for provincial local climate change action plans
  • Sets procedures for preparing, approving, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting those plans
  • Defines the role and working rules of provincial climate change coordination boards

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Prepare local climate change action plans at provincial level that address both climate adaptation and greenhouse gas emission reduction, taking Turkey’s net-zero emissions target, national contribution statement, and relevant planning instruments into account.

provincial public authoritieslocal authorities responsible for provincial climate planning
operational
medium

Submit provincial local climate change action plans for formal decision or approval under the procedures set by the regulation before implementation.

provincial public authoritiesprovincial climate change coordination boardslocal authorities
operational
high

Implement approved local climate change action plans at provincial level in line with the administrative and technical procedures established by the regulation.

provincial public authoritiesmunicipalitiesspecial provincial administrationsrelevant public institutions
operational
high

Monitor and evaluate the implementation of local climate change action plans and report implementation progress as required by the regulation.

provincial public authoritiesmunicipalitiesspecial provincial administrationsrelevant institutions assigned responsibilities under local plans
reporting
medium

Upload data relating to local climate change action plans into the E-YİDEP online system for monitoring and reporting purposes.

public institutions responsible for local climate action plan datalocal authoritiesprovincial public authorities
reporting

Affected Parties

municipalities and provincial local administrationspublic institutions involved in climate, planning, infrastructure, transport, energy, and environment+2 more…

Tags

climate change,local government,emissions reduction…