CHP Gülcan Winter: “Not the Climate Law, but the market regulation; this proposal ignores agriculture, farmers and olives”

CHP Mersin Deputy Gülcan Kış, in his speech at the General Assembly of the Turkish Grand National Assembly on July 2, 2025, criticized the scope and content of the Climate Law Proposal.

"Country is burning, no solution; the name of the law" climate ", content" carbon trade "" ""
Reminding that all over Turkey is struggling with forest fires, Winter said, “While the effects of climate change are in the middle, the government is still unprepared, still not hit.”

"Agriculture, farmers, producers are not in this law"
Reminding the frost disaster of Mersin farmers, winter, "This law ignores Mersin's citrus, olives, vineyards, farmers. We have established the Agricultural Research Commission, but there is no single line of farmers in the climate law," he said.

"The climate is not preserved with the understanding that opens olive areas to the mine"
Recalling the tension due to the proposal that came to the Assembly Commission last week and olive groves for mining, winter, "The hand extends to olives, this people extended to the root of the people. Those images, the AKP's view of the environment," he said.

"No fair transition, no local government, no people"
Winter said that the phrase “fair transition alan in the law proposal remains only on paper and that no social support mechanism of workers, women, young people and fragile groups is foreseen.

"Yes as a CHP carbon regulation on the border, but this law no"
Winter, the CHP supports policies in accordance with international standards against the climate crisis, said: "Net emission target, industry carbon regulation, such as yes, but this incomplete, unfair, market -to -market proposal," he said.

"If there is a climate law, the release date from coal should be a fossil fuel limit"
Winter listed the items that should be included in a real climate law as follows:

• The release date from coal must be clearly specified

• Fossil fuel should be limited

• Agriculture and water management should be integrated

• Local governments should be included in the process

• Social supported fair transition mechanisms should be created

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