Turkey Archives

Jan 31, 2022

Turkey opens laboratory to grow algae for jet fuel, in EU-backed clean aviation push

Ministers hope Turkish Airlines will make its first biofuelled flight by the end of 2022, but experts are sceptical algae can make much of a dent in aviation emissions

Jun 18, 2021

Science

An outbreak of ‘sea snot’ is killing Turkey’s fishing industry

Fishing in the Marmara Sea has become impossible as marine mucilage blankets the water, blamed on rising sea temperatures and pollution

Jun 6, 2023

Politics

Turkiye joins Australia in race to host Cop31 climate talks

Turkiye and Australia will vie for the support of Western Europe, North America and New Zealand in their bids to host the 2026 climate talks

Mar 5, 2019

Energy

Turkish supreme court blocks coal plant, as wave of new projects stalls

Local opposition won a legal ruling against a major project on the Black Sea coast – the latest challenge to Turkey’s plans to expand coal use

Nov 13, 2017

Finance

Germans deny Erdoğan’s desire for climate finance

Turkey has threatened not to ratify the Paris climate deal, but a German proposal refused to grant its wish to access the Green Climate Fund

Feb 23, 2017

Energy

Court forces Turkish coal plant to suspend operations

Three years after it came online, Izdemir power station has been stripped of its environmental licence, in a win for campaigners

Nov 10, 2016

Energy

Turkey: Notes from a state of (climatic) emergency

Coal-rich Turkey is straying further and further from the path of climate safety. Can it be convinced to come back to the fold?

Sep 27, 2016

Energy

China cuts pollution at home, grows coal abroad

China cuts coal at home but state owned companies and banks drive new coal expansion overseas, despite promises of green growth for developing countries

Jun 22, 2016

News

Turkey coal surge an ‘historic error’ say economists

Fears Russia could turn off the gas taps are driving Turkey towards coal – which experts say will be an expensive mistake for the country and climate

Apr 27, 2016

Energy

In pictures: Greenpeace activists scale Turkish coal plant

Protest highlights climate and local impact of government plans for more than 70 coal power plants

Nov 13, 2015

Energy

Are major economies putting the squeeze on coal?

ANALYSIS: Upcoming G20 and OECD meetings promise a crackdown on fossil fuel subsidies, but their actions tell a different story

Oct 22, 2015

Energy

Turkey coal push wrecks ‘inadequate’ climate pledge – analysts

NEWS: Planned dirty power plants will wipe out clean energy gains, says Climate Action Tracker, jeopardising an already weak emissions target

Oct 13, 2015

News

6 elections to watch before Paris climate summit

ANALYSIS: A shift in public mood at the ballot box can boot out climate laggards or propel them to power. Here are six on the radar from Canada to Myanmar

Nov 27, 2014

Politics

What UN stats tell us about climate efforts – and Turkey

ANALYSIS: The latest greenhouse gas emissions figures from rich countries show policies do work, but economics can change everything

Jan 20, 2013

Energy

Turkey’s hydropower dreams in danger of drowning rich history

Writing for RTCC, film maker Todd Southgate asks whether the huge dams planned in Turkey, Brazil and China are coming at too great a cost for the environment

Apr 26, 2012

Science

Understanding desertification in Turkey

Duygu Kutluay writes for RTCC about how one project in Turkey is helping researchers to understand how to combat desertification on a number of levels in the country’s drylands.