In September 2015, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly by making promises to end extreme poverty, to fight inequality and injustice and to combat climate change, set out to achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 associated targets by 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The UN Environment Program (UNEP) Report, named “Making Peace with Nature: A blueprint to tackle the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies”, announced in February 2021, informed us of what we need to do under three urgent headings, as its name suggests. Climate changed as biodiversity disappeared, soil, air and water polluted. Climate is changing. Climate will change.
The UNEP State of the Climate: Climate Action Note dated 9 November 2021 also presents a climate emergency with a code red for humanity. We are in a situation that we cannot ignore, the word worry is understatement and we should be afraid. In order to secure our future and prevent new epidemics, it is necessary to find political, economic and technical solutions for our climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution problems. For these solutions, all of us, citizens, the official power, local governments, academia, civil society, media and especially the business world and industry have a great responsibility. We must adopt a sustainable living culture, maintain sustainable production and consumption at home, at work, on the road, at school, in the field, in the forest, and manage daily and industrial life sustainably.
Until the lubricating oil completes its useful life and becomes waste, it causes destruction in nature and hazardousness to human health, depletion of resources and deterioration of ecosystems with effects on soil, water, air, biodiversity and human life throughout its life cycle. Waste oil management is also an indisputable responsibility in itself. While lubricating oil production progresses causing significant environmental impacts, each facility and supply chain affects and is affected by climate change. For these reasons, the facilities and lubricant industry should follow the global top-line course of events together with local, regional and national climate change agenda in their geographical location, and make their short, medium and long-term plans climate-resistant within the sustainability management.
Organizations should strive to mitigate greenhouse gases, which is the measure of their impact on climate change and one of the environmental indicators, in other words the Carbon Footprint, and adapt to the current and expected climate and its effects, and be climate resilient by reducing the damage or taking advantage of opportunities to live with the effects of the climate crisis. Climate resilience is ensured by gaining the ability to detect, anticipate, prepare for, respond to dangerous climate-related events, trends or disturbances, evaluate how climate change will create or change new risks, and take steps to better deal with these risks, and build capacity. In this process, the organization sets out on the path of low-carbon growth by emitting greenhouse gases or reducing greenhouse gas emissions, by achieving the best carbon management with climate finance strategies as an element of the Emissions Trading System (ETS).
The organization, which carries out its sustainable production by using the best available technology with the best waste-energy-water management resource-efficiently, improves its environmental, social andwater, air, biodiversity and human life throughout its life cycle. Waste oil management is also an indisputable responsibility in itself. While lubricating oil production progresses causing significant environmental impacts, each facility and supply chain affects and is affected by climate change. For these reasons, the facilities and lubricant industry should follow the global top-line course of events together with local, regional and national climate change agenda in their geographical location, and make their short, medium and long-term plans climate-resistant within the sustainability management.
Organizations should strive to mitigate greenhouse gases, which is the measure of their impact on climate change and one of the environmental indicators, in other words the Carbon Footprint, and adapt to the current and expected climate and its effects, and be climate resilient by reducing the damage or taking advantage of opportunities to live with the effects of the climate crisis. Climate resilience is ensured by gaining the ability to detect, anticipate, prepare for, respond to dangerous climate-related events, trends or disturbances, evaluate how climate change will create or change new risks, and take steps to better deal with these risks, and build capacity. In this process, the organization sets out on the path of low-carbon growth by emitting greenhouse gases or reducing greenhouse gas emissions, by achieving the best carbon management with climate finance strategies as an element of the Emissions Trading System (ETS).
The organization, which carries out its sustainable production by using the best available technology with the best waste-energy-water management resource-efficiently, improves its environmental, social and governance indicators, and gains climate resilience by achieving the best carbon management. Climate resilience of additive and packaging suppliers is also a priority for manufacturers in the lubricants industry.
On May 2, 2023 emphasizing “Climate Resilient Industry and Strong Türkiye”, in the registered green campus of Istanbul Technical University (ITU) under the auspices of the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change business world will come together for VIII. Istanbul Carbon Summit. Sustainable Production and Consumption Association (SPCA) demonstrates the power of civil society with the mission of carrying out activities that provide all kinds of educational and awareness-raising information flow focused on sustainable development with a human and nature-friendly sustainable living culture; a strong impact on society on sustainable production and consumption; efficient management of resources with the best energy, water and waste management, using the best available technologies; combating environmental pollution; improving climate resilience. With this purpose in mind and the Istanbul Carbon Summit event, SÜT-D is aiming for better understanding the place of carbon management in sustainability management; correct linking and implementation of carbon management and the fight against the climate crisis; monitoring climate finance, green banking and ETS developments; examining the present and future of carbon markets; and presenting the carbon management good practices of organizations from senior managers to stakeholders. In the first and only event of the SPCA theme, the SPCA Low Carbon Hero and SPCA Little Carbon Hero Awards will be presented, praising the technical and social achievements of individuals and organizations in carbon management and creating a widespread impact within its stakeholders. We look forward to welcoming our lubricant industry peers to the VIII. Istanbul Carbon Summit, at our registered green campus, in the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Türkiye and the 250th anniversary of ITU. Save the date and join us at Istanbul Carbon Summit.
