Climate change caused by renewable and non-renewable energy consumption and economic growth: A time series ARDL analysis for Turkey

This paper focuses on climate change in Turkey caused by energy consumption using an Autoregressive Distributed Lag and Toda-Yamamoto causality analysis. The motivation and aim are: Finding evidence of causality for the relationship between energy consumption, growing economies and climate change depending on parameters that vary over time, which are observed and argued through political impli-cations. Temperature and precipitation are the dependent variables for climate change; energy types and Gross Domestic Product per capita are the independent variables for economic determiners. Data was collected annually from various institutions between 1980 and 2019. According to the Toda-Yamamoto test, a negative relationship is determined between renewable energy consumption and temperature in both the short and long term. The results reveal that a 1% increase in renewable energy reduces the temperature by 0.031%. The increase of renewable energy may help in decreasing temperature. Pre-cipitation and non-renewable energy consumption have a positive relationship in both the short and long term, with a 1% increase in non-renewable energy consumption causing a 0.175% increase in pre-cipitation, indicating a negative effect on climate change. Encouraging renewable energy consumption through government incentives can be a powerful solution to decrease the negative effects of climate change in Turkey.(c) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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This paper focuses on climate change in Turkey caused by energy consumption. The results show a negative relationship between renewable energy consumption and temperature, indicating that an increase in renewable energy can help decrease temperature. On the other hand, non-renewable energy consumption has a positive relationship with precipitation, suggesting a negative effect on climate change. Encouraging renewable energy consumption through government incentives can be a powerful solution to mitigate the negative effects of climate change in Turkey.