{"id":11624,"date":"2026-10-20T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11624"},"modified":"2026-10-20T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:18:25","slug":"science-cafe-traces-turkiyes-sustainability-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11624","title":{"rendered":"Science Caf\u00e9 Traces T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s Sustainability Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Assoc. Prof. Emel \u00d6zdora of the Department of Communication and Design gave a Science Caf\u00e9 (Bilim Kafe) talk titled \u201cFrom CSR to ESG: Sustainability and the Transformation of Green Industrialization in T\u00fcrkiye in Light of COP31\u201d on Wednesday, October 14, in the C-Block Auditorium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The talk was part of the Science Caf\u00e9 series organized by the Council of Higher Education (Y\u00d6K) and coincided with the seminars Bilkent held ahead of the COP31 UN Climate Change Conference, to be held in Antalya on November 9\u201320.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00d6zdora traced the evolution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) \u2014 from early thinkers such as Howard Bowen, Milton Friedman and R. Edward Freeman to frameworks like the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement \u2014 and its shift toward ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance), which turns broad ethical commitments into measurable indicators reported to investors and the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turning to T\u00fcrkiye, she followed the country\u2019s path from Ottoman foundation (vak\u0131f) culture to today\u2019s international standards, noting that sustainability reporting became mandatory for larger companies under the Turkish Sustainability Reporting Standards (TSRS) in January 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1X9A0355-copy-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11625\" width=\"342\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1X9A0355-copy-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1X9A0355-copy-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1X9A0355-copy-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1X9A0355-copy-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1X9A0355-copy-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1X9A0355-copy-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assoc. Prof. Emel \u00d6zdora of the Department of Communication and Design gave a Science Caf\u00e9 (Bilim Kafe) talk titled \u201cFrom CSR to ESG: Sustainability and the Transformation of Green Industrialization in T\u00fcrkiye in Light of COP31\u201d on Wednesday, October 14, in the C-Block Auditorium. The talk was part of the<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11624\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,80,231,224],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11626,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624\/revisions\/11626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}