1. 1 TURKEY SoER 2010 STUDIES Ministry of Environment and Forestry September, 2009 Özlem Esengin

2. 2 Content  Background  SoER Part C  Commonality  Diversity  Flexibility  EIS Projects

3. 3 Background History of Reporting in Turkey Since 1993, SoER at provincial level are prepared every year SoER at national level is prepared every 4 year (latest 2007) Besides, a questionnaire aiming to define the environmental problems and priorities was prepared by the MoEF and was filled in by Provincial Directorates of MoEF every year. An environmental indicators booklet is prepared and published every year since 2007.

4. 4 Background SoER Part A … EEA SoER Part B … EEA SoER Part C … countries NFP team related PCP’s Division of SoE Reporting (country coordinator)

5. 5 SoER Part C Commonality (8 topics) Diversity (uploaded) Flexibility (topics determined)

6. 6 Commonality Air pollution (studies ongoing) Climate change mitigation (ready) Nature protection and biodiversity (ready) Land- CLC 1990-2006 (ready) Freshwaters (studies ongoing) Waste (studies ongoing) Soil (from country report) Marine (from country report)

7. 7 Diversity Prepared with the help of State Planning Organisation (responsible for preparing 5- year Development Plans) Uploaded 4 questions Distinguishing factors Major developments since 1980 Main drivers of environmental pressures Foreseen main cause of enve. problems

8. 8 Flexibility Biodiversity (a vast variety of species; both common and endemic) Climate change (as of 26 august 2009, Turkey is a party to the kyoto Protocol) Information Systems (since 1990’s studies are ongoing, EIS, TEIEN)

9. 9 EIS & Teien Environmental Information System was established in 2006 under MoEF that also allows data access and query to other institutions that deal with environmental data. TEIEN will create an environment over which participants shall exchange regular environmental data through the mechanisms and applications to be developed. The system will also serve advanced reporting tools and GIS-enabled decision support tools for geo-referenced environmental data. It was started in December 2008 and will last in 16 months. Reporting at all levels planned to be realised through the reporting tool of TEIEN

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