Bornova Municipality and Heidelberg Municipality Continue Training Work in the Climate Adaptation City Twinning Project

(İZMİR)- The training activities of the Climate Adaptation City Twinning Project (BORNBERG) between Bornova Municipality and Heidelberg Municipality continue.

The BORNBERG project, which aims to increase the capacity and resilience to adapt to climate change and reduce carbon emissions, strengthens the cooperation between Bornova Municipality and Heidelberg Municipality for a sustainable future, while also increasing the awareness of citizens on this issue through training.

The trainings within the scope of the project are grouped under two headings: ‘institutional capacity development’ and ‘awareness raising’. While young people, youth workers, children and women are determined as the target audience with awareness raising trainings, in-house personnel, managers and decision-makers are informed by academics with institutional capacity development trainings.

The role of man

Among the municipality’s BORNBERG Project partners, Yaşar University’s Energy Systems Engineering Department faculty members Prof. Dr. Nurdan Yıldırım and Dr. Faculty Member Emin Selahattin Umdu provide awareness training. The training emphasizes the importance of the human role in combating climate change and addresses the damage humans cause to nature and other living things.

An example of solidarity

Mayor Ömer Eşki stated that they are presenting an example of global solidarity against climate change with the BORNBERG project led by the two cities, and said, “We are happy to be carrying out a project together with Yaşar University and the Energy Industrialists and Businessmen’s Association (ENSİA) in the BORNBERG Project, which is among the European cities with zero carbon emissions in terms of sustainability. With this project, Bornova Municipality will have a climate and energy action plan for a green future. Our work on a green future will be taken to the next level.”