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could generate jobs for their people, Ünal
underlined.
“What is missing in this picture is political
will and integrated policies, sustainable
long-term policies,” she remarked, adding
that UNCTAD’s initiative would also
lead to regional talks on the exchange
of knowledge to show that green
industrialization is possible.
Robert Pollin, an economics professor
at the University of Massachusetts-
Amherst in the U.S., told Anadolu Agency
that Turkey should “invest in raising
efficiency standards and increasing public
transportation, getting cars off the road.”
Investments in electric heating and cooling
is also “relatively inexpensive,” he added.
To reduce carbon emissions, Pollin said,
Turkey should invest in renewable energy,
which would, in turn, reduce its imports in
that sector. He suggested that the country
should work to “substitute imported fossil
fuel to having domestic green energy.”
To realize green industrialization, Pollin
told the panel that “mobilizing existing
institutions” would be key for more
effective policies.
Pointing to the World Bank and
International Monetary Fund, Pollin said
their efforts would also lead to policies
toward achieving sustainability goals.
Cooperation
Safdar Sohail, from Pakistan’s National
Institute of Public Policy, said Turkey and
Pakistan could “help each other and learn
from each other in technology” with regard
to green industrialization.
At the regional level, Sohail said, regional
economic cooperation would be a better
platform for the two countries’ work
towards their sustainability goals.
“Both countries are doing interesting things
in the greening of their economy, like the
collaboration between the two countries in
public transport facilities,” he said, pointing
to the public subway line in Lahore, a
Pakistani city of over 11 million people,
which was built by a Turkish firm, as an
example.
He said the revival of the Istanbul-Tehran-
Islamabad railway was also a step in the
direction of economic integration.
Calling for south-south cooperation among
the developing nations, the Pakistani
expert urged countries to use “cleaner
technologies for production.”
Amid “hyper globalization,” he told the
panel, “development practice” is needed
much more at international levels before it
can be at regional levels.
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