IZSIAD focuses on green transformation, carbon trading and new regulations

For Turkish industrialists, green transformation is no longer being presented as a distant environmental concern. At webinars organized by the Izmir Industrialists and Businesspeople Association, speakers framed it as a question of competitiveness, exports and survival under changing trade rules.

The association’s Environment and Energy Commission held sessions titled “Green Transformation: The New Key to Competitiveness in Industry” and “Carbon Trading, Carbon Credits and Regulations.” Professor Nuri Azbar of Ege University and PRONGEN TECH discussed industrial transformation, while Fiba Holding and Committed.app General Manager Levent Köseoğlu addressed carbon markets and regulation. Nadide Akyıldız moderated the sessions.

IZSIAD Chairman Alaattin Yüksel said companies must prepare for new regulations and create road maps for their own businesses. “In our production processes, sustainability, energy efficiency and carbon management are no longer the agenda of the future, but the agenda of today,” he said. He called information-sharing meetings valuable because members need to understand the transition correctly.

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In our production processes, sustainability, energy efficiency and carbon management are no longer the agenda of the future, but the agenda of today.

Azbar said Europe is reshaping the rules of global trade through new regulations. Turkish industry, he argued, should approach the transition not only as a compliance exercise, but also as a way to protect and improve competitiveness.

He recommended five strategic steps: understand product life cycles, establish strong data collection systems, begin life-cycle assessment and carbon-footprint calculations, take a product-based rather than factory-only approach, and plan digitalization and sustainability together. He said life-cycle assessments will underpin environmental product declarations, product carbon footprints and digital product passports. Early integration of enterprise resource planning and production-tracking systems with future digital-product-passport data could save companies time and money later.

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Europe is writing the rules of the new game.