This Post is submitted by Climate Scorecard Turkey Country Manager Semih Ergur Turkey’s land mass is an area of...
Turkey Moves to Construct it’s First Nuclear Power Plants
This Post was submitted by Climate Scorecard Turkey Country Manager Semih Ergur The installed capacity of electricity generation industry in...
Turkey: Lack of 2030 and 2050 Emissions Reduction Plans and a Fossil Fuel Centered COVID Economic Recovery Plan
This post was submitted by Turkey Country Manager Barış Can Sever Turkey lacks a plan for reducing 2030 and 2050...
Turkey Has Not Yet Made a Commitment to Reduce Greenhouse Gases By a Certain Percentage By 2030
This Post was submitted by Climate Scorecard Turkey Country Manager Nemanja Bozovic Current level of greenhouse gas emissions In 2019,...
Best Climate Practice Turkey: Yeşil Düşünce Derneği (Green Thought Association)
This Post was submitted by Climate Scorecard Turkey Country Manager Barış Can Sever One of the best climate practices...
Turkey’s Feed-In Tariff System of the Renewable Energy Sources Support Mechanism (YEKDEM)
By Climate Scorecard Turkey Country Manager Barış Can Sever One of Turkey’s best practices in renewable energy production is the...
Turkey Needs to Develop a Multi-Sector Decarbonization Plan Among Other Climate Policies
Policy Recommendation 1: Current Incentives and Plans for Coal-Based Power Plants Should be Decreased and Eventually Abandoned Policy Recommendation 2:...
Turkey’s Electricity Consumption was 272.53 Terawatt hours (TWh) in 2018, a 443.65% increase over 1990 levels (Source: IEA)
Since 1990, Turkey’s electricity consumption has steadily increased with period decreases in 2001 and 2010. The country consumed 50.13 Terawatt...
190% Increase in Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Turkey Since 1990
Recently Reported Greenhouse Gas Emissions Levels: 374.13 Megatons in 2018, a 190.56% increase over 1990 levels (Source: IEA) Current greenhouse...
A New Green Infrastructure Policy in Turkey Will Stimulate the Creation of Green Jobs
In the 2012 Rio+20 Sustainable Development Conference, sectors closely related to environmental sustainability are listed as agriculture, forestry, fishing, renewable...