Economics of environmental policy in Turkey: A general equilibrium investigation of the economic evaluation of sectoral emission reduction policies for climate change


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Telli C., VOYVODA E., Yeldan E.

JOURNAL OF POLICY MODELING, cilt.30, sa.2, ss.321-340, 2008 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 30 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2008
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2007.03.001
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF POLICY MODELING
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.321-340
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: environmental policy, general equilibrium, climate change, global warming, DECOMPOSITION
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Research on climate change has intensified on a global scale as evidence on the costs of global warming continues to accumulate. Confronted with such evidence, the European Union set in late 2006 an ambitious target to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, by 2020, to 20% below the level of 1990; and invited the rest of the developed economies and the developing world to take part with the Kyoto Protocol. Turkey is the only country that appears in the Annex-I list of the United Nations' Rio Summit and yet an official target for CO2 emission reductions has still not been established. Thus, as part of its accession negotiations with the EU, Turkey will likely to face significant pressures to introduce its national plan on climate change along with specific emission targets and the associated abatement policies.