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Although there is a new draft law on utilization of renewable energy resources which has been discussed in the Turkish parliament, Turkey still has no official plans on how to use its renewable energy resources and Turkey has no plans to increase energy efficiency.
Despite having huge deficit and unemployment problem Turkey ignores the potential of renewables and look for the dirty and expensive options such as nuclear and fossil fuels. There are much cheaper, cleaner, safer options. Investing in those options would decrease the dependency of fossil fuels and create jobs.
Turkey is also to become a future crossroads of energy routes. The BTC (Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan) oil pipeline is due to be opened next year and there is already an intention to build another oil pipe-line to meet growing export from Russia and Caspian region. The Bosporus strait is under pressure. The oil tanker traffic is at its limits and currently 140 million tons of oil and oil derivatives passed through the Turkish straits each year. A project called “East-West Energy Corridor” has been launched the aim of which is to transport Caspian Basin energy resources.
The corridor project, which will link the Caucasus and Central Asian countries into the Western world, comprises three major pipeline projects, namely the BTC Oil Pipeline, the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum Natural Gas Pipeline and the Caspian (via Turkmenistan-Turkey-Europe) Natural Gas Pipeline. As a result of this project, fragile ecosystems of Mediterranean are threatened as well as the climate.
Climate change is described as one of the biggest environmental problems. Obviously, if the money flow continues through fossil fuel investments it will be harder to stop climate change. According to the projections, expected temperature rise in Turkey will be between 2 and 3 degrees by 2050. In the same time period sea level rise will be 14-38 cm.
Turkey has ratified UNFCC on the 24th of May 2004 and still there is no clear indication towards the Kyoto Protocol. Turkey, during the last ten years has increased the emission of greenhouse gases by 65 percent. Signing the Kyoto Protocol secures that the dirty fossil fuel investments are limited and the future of Turkey’s environment and the people’s lives will not be at risk. Also it will stop the dirty technology transfer from developed countries to developing world.
Turkey’s current installed capacity is 37 000 MW and 68 percent of it comes from the fossil fuels. The installed wind energy capacity is 21 MW and it was 19 MW in 1998.
Despite having huge deficit and unemployment problem Turkey ignores the potential of renewables and look for the dirty and expensive options such as nuclear and fossil fuels. There are much cheaper, cleaner, safer options. Investing in those options would decrease the dependency of fossil fuels and create jobs.
Turkey is also to become a future crossroads of energy routes. The BTC (Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan) oil pipeline is due to be opened next year and there is already an intention to build another oil pipe-line to meet growing export from Russia and Caspian region. The Bosporus strait is under pressure. The oil tanker traffic is at its limits and currently 140 million tons of oil and oil derivatives passed through the Turkish straits each year. A project called “East-West Energy Corridor” has been launched the aim of which is to transport Caspian Basin energy resources.
The corridor project, which will link the Caucasus and Central Asian countries into the Western world, comprises three major pipeline projects, namely the BTC Oil Pipeline, the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum Natural Gas Pipeline and the Caspian (via Turkmenistan-Turkey-Europe) Natural Gas Pipeline. As a result of this project, fragile ecosystems of Mediterranean are threatened as well as the climate.
Climate change is described as one of the biggest environmental problems. Obviously, if the money flow continues through fossil fuel investments it will be harder to stop climate change. According to the projections, expected temperature rise in Turkey will be between 2 and 3 degrees by 2050. In the same time period sea level rise will be 14-38 cm.
Turkey has ratified UNFCC on the 24th of May 2004 and still there is no clear indication towards the Kyoto Protocol. Turkey, during the last ten years has increased the emission of greenhouse gases by 65 percent. Signing the Kyoto Protocol secures that the dirty fossil fuel investments are limited and the future of Turkey’s environment and the people’s lives will not be at risk. Also it will stop the dirty technology transfer from developed countries to developing world.
Turkey’s current installed capacity is 37 000 MW and 68 percent of it comes from the fossil fuels. The installed wind energy capacity is 21 MW and it was 19 MW in 1998.
