The Impact of Turkish Manufacturing Industry on CO2 Emissions

Year 2017, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 150 - 167, 25.12.2017

Zeliha Özdemir Demet B. Kalmaz

Abstract

Abstract: Global
warming has emerged as a result of human activities, and greenhouse gases are
the most effective cause of global warming. The accumulations of greenhouse
gases have rapidly increased in the atmosphere as a result of the increase in
use of fossil fuels, wrong use of land, and industrialization. The aim of the
study is to examine the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions,
electricity consumption, economic growth, and trade openness on manufacturing
industry in Turkey by using time series data between the years 1962 and 2013.
The study employs the bound test for ARDL approach, ECM, Granger causality test
and Cusum and Cusumsq test. CO₂ emissions are high due to two
reasons in Turkey. First, Turkey’s energy intensity is high. Second,
electricity production depends on non-renewable sources. Turkey should decrease
energy intensity while increasing the share of renewable energy sources for energy
production to be able to decrease energy CO₂ emissions in the
manufacturing industry.

Keywords

CO2

The Impact of Turkish Manufacturing Industry on CO2 Emissions

Abstract

Abstract: Global
warming has emerged as a result of human activities, and greenhouse gases are
the most effective cause of global warming. The accumulations of greenhouse
gases have rapidly increased in the atmosphere as a result of the increase in
use of fossil fuels, wrong use of land, and industrialization. The aim of the
study is to examine the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions,
electricity consumption, economic growth, and trade openness on manufacturing
industry in Turkey by using time series data between the years 1962 and 2013.
The study employs the bound test for ARDL approach, ECM, Granger causality test
and Cusum and Cusumsq test. CO₂ emissions are high due to two
reasons in Turkey. First, Turkey’s energy intensity is high. Second,
electricity production depends on non-renewable sources. Turkey should decrease
energy intensity while increasing the share of renewable energy sources for
energy production to be able to decrease energy CO₂ emissions in the
manufacturing industry.

 

Keywords: CO₂
emissions, electricity consumption, trade, ARDL

Keywords

Co, emission

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