Dursun Baş serves as an EU Environmental Policy Expert and project manager with a demonstrated history of working in the field of EU Environmental and Climate Acquis, skilled in Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA). He has a MSc degree in Earth System Sciences at METU.
Dursun Baş serves as an EU Environmental Policy Expert and project manager with a demonstrated history of working in the field of EU Environmental and Climate Acquis, skilled in Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA). He has a MSc degree in Earth System Sciences at METU.
He has more than 10 years of technical/practical experience, both in governmental, local authorities, NGOs sector and private spheres, with expertise on the transposition and implementation of the EU environmental, nature conservation&biodiversity and climate&energy acquis.
He supports managing/developing projects in the field of UN Environmental Agreements, EU Environmental, Climate and Energy Acquis and particularly the preparation of RIA studies as a lead or co-author. He involved in the RIA team of the preparation of full RIA Reports of EU Env., Climate and Nature Legislation (Habitats&Birds Directives, Seveso II Directive, Packaging Waste Directive, Landfill Directive, UWWTD, ETS Directive, CCS Directive, Fuel Quality Directive) including management of comprehensive consultation processes. He worked as a NKE in the EU Funded Technical Assistance Projects for Turkey, Seveso II Directive (2011-2014) and Natura 2000 (2015-2018), Low Carbon Development (2017-2020), EU Invasive Alien Species TA (2019-2022).
He contributed to capacity building/research projects on environmental themes by putting in technical and managerial expertise. He supported training programs, preparation of secondary legislation, institutional needs assessment, and Legal Gap Assessment reports.
He worked as an expert to prepare the GHG inventory and local climate action plans of Kocaeli and Denizli metropolitan municipalities. He co-managed the "Community-Based Recycling for A Litter Free Mediterranean Project" at Nature Conservation Centre (DKM) from May 2019 to Jan 2020. Recently, he performed as RIA expert for the transposition of EU Climate Acquis for Low Carbon Development TA Project.
He worked as a Key Expert during January - October 2021 for the EC supported project named as "Support to the EUD in Appraisal of Projects and Blending Operations in the field of Environments and Climate Change" for Turkey.
From August 2020 to October 2022, he has been working as a Turkey Project Coordinator of the COBENEFITS Project, which is part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) and supported by the German BMU. (cobenfits.info)
Since May 2022, he coordinates the "STEEL SECTOR DECARBONIZATION – Introductory Work in Turkey” project which aims to understand the decarbonization needs of the steel industry.
