Environment Platform

The Environment Platform brings together the units of the member municipalities of Marmara Municipalities Union working in areas such as Environmental Protection and Control, Waste Management, and Cleaning Works. The goal of the platform is to develop solutions to common problems through a holistic perspective, to share experiences and examples of good practices, to raise awareness about a sustainable environment, and to develop a common understanding between central government and local governments by generating opinions and suggestions regarding legal regulations that concern local governments.

To this end, the Environment Platform carries out activities such as generating opinions on environmental legislation and preparing legislative proposals, improving communication with stakeholders who will directly or indirectly affect environmental management activities, preparing various data analysis reports by setting up commissions on focused working topics and submitting those reports to the relevant authorities, holding consultation meetings to convey the problems to the relevant ministry and other public institutions/organizations in a holistic way, organizing technical trips related to the environmental management, ensuring the participation of municipalities that are deemed to be eligible according to the subject and criteria in international projects and collaborations, and informing municipalities regularly on environmental sciences within the framework of collaborations developed with universities.

In line with the decision taken at the platform meeting held on 16 October 2024, the Environment Platform continues its activities through commissions. The titles of these commissions have been identified and classified through a literature review according to the powers and responsibilities set out in Law No. 2872 on Environment, Law No. 5216 on Metropolitan Municipalities, Law No. 5393 on Municipality, and the secondary legislation issued within the scope of these laws. The municipalities and individuals participating in these commissions have been determined based on request collecting and priority of demands.

Commissions:
1. Ecosystem Services and Ecosystem Health Commission
2. Air Quality Commission
3. Climate Change Commission
4. Zero Waste Commission
5. Water and Wastewater Management Commission

In addition, organizational undertakings are in progress to establish an Energy Management Commission. While the designated commissions continue their activities under their own topics, joint studies will also be considered as it is inevitable for the commissions to intersect with one another.