Özyeğin University Student Emre Yiğit Ay Represents Türkiye at COP 28 International Climate Change Conference

Emre Yiğit Ay, a sophomore student at the Faculty of Law at Özyeğin University and President of the OzU Social Awareness Club, represented our University within the framework of the Climate Ambassadors project conducted by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization, and Climate Change in collaboration with UNICEF between 2023 and 2024. Our student Emre Yiğit Ay was named one of the five students who were selected as climate ambassadors among approximately 150 university representatives from Türkiye at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 28, which is held annually by UNICEF and took place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from November 30 to December 9 this year. On the opening day of the conference, Ay presented the climate agenda of the Turkish youth and gained firsthand experience in the negotiations as part of the Turkish delegation.

The Conferences of the Parties (COP), initiated by the United Nations in Berlin in 1995 and now in its 28th edition in 2023, is organized annually to assess progress in the battle against climate change and chart a course of action in line with the guidelines of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Paris Agreement, signed by all countries at COP21, aimed to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C. Throughout the conference, countries conducted deliberations in alignment with this goal, making decisions to combat the climate and biodiversity crisis on a global scale.

Please follow the link below for more about the conference: https://www.cop28.com/