As BCSD Türkiye, we have been working for 20 years to guide the business world to realize their green transformation goals in their sustainable development journey. IC Holding is a key player in the business world in multiple fields, particularly in the tourism and construction sectors, which are an important part of this struggle, and closely monitors the developments regarding global climate change. IC Holding is a major stakeholder that serves economic, social and environmental benefits by creating its activities on the axis of sustainability. IC İçtaş Construction and Treysan, both subsidiaries of IC Holding, have been a member of BCSD Türkiye since 2019 and 2022 respectively, and they actively participate in all working groups of our association. In addition, IC İçtaş Construction, Tredaş and ICA are among the signatories of the Business Plastics Initiative, a voluntary initiative established by founding organizations including BCSD Türkiye to encourage private sector organizations to take concrete action to address plastic wastes in line with the circular economy principles. Moreover, IC İçtaş Construction adds momentum to our cooperation as one of the main sponsors of our Association’s new project, ‘Guidelines for the Management of Demolition Wastes from Urban Transformation, Earthquake and Other Possible Disasters’, which is prepared for the holistic management of demolition wastes generated by urban transformation, earthquakes and other possible disasters in Türkiye. As BCSD Türkiye, we support the green transformation journey of our country through the projects we realize with the strength we receive from our member companies and the studies that provide measurable outputs. While I hope that our cooperation with our valuable stakeholder IC Holding will further increase, I congratulate our stakeholder for its awareness of the contribution that reporting with a focus on ‘transparency and accountability’ will make to the green transformation of our country.
KONCA ÇALKIVİK
Secretary General, BCSD TÜRKİYE
The educational scholarships that Mr. İbrahim Çeçen, IC Holding Chairman, started to provide personally in 1984, started to meet with students in a more institutionalized structure with the establishment of the IC İbrahim Çeçen Foundation in 2004. Our foundation continues its activities in the fields of education, health, sports and cultural development.
Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University, which was established in 2007 in Ağrı, one of the frontier provinces of our country, and honorably bears the name of İbrahim Çeçen, a philanthropist businessman who is a volunteer for education, is a higher education institution that prioritizes raising qualified young people who will take part in the future of our country.
As Sustainability Academy, we work as an information, cooperation and communication center to be effective together with all stakeholders to shape a better future in the business world, to grow the impact together and to accelerate change and transformation.
The Impact Investing and Advisory Board (EYDK), the first and only national advisory board focused on impact investing in Türkiye, has been working since its inception to facilitate the development of impact investing and build an impact investing ecosystem that fosters sustainable growth in Türkiye.