ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS AND SERVICES SECTOR IN TURKEY: INVENTORY, PRODUCTION AND EMPLOYMENT ANALYSIS
Project no. 844 · Status: Kapanmış · 2017
Summary
In order to solve the global crisis in the world, the transformation that brings sustainability to the forefront in the production and consumption patterns of humanity, life styles, and its relationship with the environment comes to the fore. A comprehensive international consensus, which aims to reflect and implement this transformation into global policies, took place in 2015 and two important global agreements were adopted. Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the Paris Climate Agreement are based on sustainability and sustainable development in this context. The integration of SDGs and policies compatible with them into national development strategies until 2030, management of proposed strategies and policies at micro and macro levels and monitoring the performance of the implemented policies reveal the need for a comparable data revolution for all countries and at the global level (SDG, 2018). In this sense, many countries; It started these studies especially for green economy, green growth and green industry strategies. The environmental goods and services (EGSS) framework also represents an important starting point for these studies. This study aims to contribute to this area for Turkey. Working in a frame on the current status of environmental goods and services sector in Turkey by drawing, EU countries and was conducted to compare the data obtained with some developing countries. Keywords: Sustainable Development, Environmental Goods and Services Sectors, Green Economy,Environmental Sectors, Employment