DEVELOPMENTS ON MANAGING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
After establishing EMS, TSKB defined its environmental impacts and started to measure its performance indicators systematically.

The Bank categorizes its impacts as internal and external, measures them and plans improving and developing activities by analytical methods.

Internal Environmental Impacts of TSKB
TSKB Environmental Policy published in 2006 has been the first sign of the Bank focusing on offsetting its direct environmental impacts.

TSKB measures its consumptions regarding its activities, makes improvement plans and sets targets since 2006. The measurements are done in terms of the electricity, water, fuel, gas, paper consumption and other waste of the buildings. The related environmental indicators and the evaluations are in the table below.

Believing the importance of reducing GHG emissions and that it is compulsory in order to suggest proactive solutions for the climate change, TSKB developed “Carbon Neutralization Project”

With this project, completed successfully and in time, reduction of CO₂ emissions arising from TSKB’s activities and offsetting of the rest through purchasing carbon credit from the voluntary carbon market was targeted. The project was designed and run by TSKB Environment Management System Team.

TSKB employees intensely and voluntarily put their efforts to minimize the environmental impacts of their daily activities at work. The TSKB Environment Policy is internalized by employees enabling it to be a living and developing concept.

TSKB thanks all of its employees for their sensitivity and voluntary contributions.

Although TSKB has been measuring its internal environmental impacts since 2006, the calculations in the coming years will be based on 2008 data. The renovation that took place during 2006-2007 in the TSKB headquarters buildings created some deviations in the data. An example is a dramatic variation in the overall consumption data as a result of an unused building under construction. Considering this factor TSKB decided to take 2008 data as reference to determine the improvement targets.