Turkey: Model Community Climate Mitigation Programs
SEFERIHISAR Seferihisar is a small town on the western coast of Turkey, situated just 50 km from Izmir, a captivating district that boasts the title of “Cittaslow”.... Read more.
Turkey Produces Comprehensive GHG Inventories that Are One Year Behind Schedule
Rating: B Background: The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change that differs from the Kyoto Protocol. While the latter was... Read more.
97% of Turkish Farmers Reported Diminishing Harvests and Yields Due to Climate Change-Related Impacts
Rating: B Turkey’s agricultural economy is among the top ten in the world, with half of the country consisting of agricultural land and nearly a quarter of the... Read more.
Turkey is Faced with the Crisis of Having Per Capita Water Resources Decline by One-Third by Mid-Century
RATING B (Moderately Effective) Water is a precious resource that is gradually getting scarcer. Population growth, industrialization, and urbanization have resulted... Read more.
Turkey’s Populist Government Continues Its Subsidies for Gas and Coal
Climate Progress in the First Half of 2023 Rating: C 2023 has been a very peculiar year for Turkey for several reasons. The primary reason is the Presidential and... Read more.
Turkey’s Efforts to Combat and Prevent Forest Fires
Disasters have been defined by United Nations (UN) as natural events that disrupt the socio-economic and socio-cultural activities of the community significantly,... Read more.
Turkey will fail to reach its goal of reducing its emissions by 50% by 2030
The chance of Turkey meeting the 50% reduction of the (BAU) business-as-usual emission levels is almost zero based on the latest official announcement of the Government... Read more.
Turkey Spent Over $200,000,000 in Fossil Fuel Subsidies in 2022
Despite all the efforts to increase the share of renewable energy sources in the domestic energy portfolio, fossil fuel-based power plants still comprise nearly... Read more.
Climate Change Threatens the Continuation of the Yoruk Nomadic Culture in Turkey
Anatolia had been a crossroads of civilizations since history started, therefore a local indigenous people population does not exist as such. Historically the ethnicities... Read more.
Turkey Contributed .90% of Global Agriculture Sector Emissions in 2021
Historically, the agriculture sector has been Turkey’s largest employer and a major contributor to the country’s GDP, although its share of the economy... Read more.