Climate Change Action Plan 2011-2023
The Action Plan sets out a road map with short, medium and long-term plans for the fight against climate change encompassing all sectors of the economy.
Overall the plan involves providing climate-friendly goals that underpin Turkey’s growth. These include: strengthening the existing information structure on low carbon progress, and developing financing models for the transition to a low carbon economy. This is with the aim of improving the fiscal and technical infrastructure to enable the limitation of GHG emissions Some details of the extensive Plan are highlighted below:
Energy
The plan includes a number of measurable goals regarding energy supply, efficiency standards in residential and commercial buildings, and incentivizing renewables. For example:
– Reducing primary energy intensity by 10% compared to 2008 by 2015
Limiting GHG emissions from coal-fired electricity production, by using cleaner technologies and taking efficiency-increasing measures by increasing the average cycle efficiencies of existing coal-fired thermal power plants until 2023
– Issuing “Energy Performance Certificates” to all buildings until 2017
– Decreasing annual energy consumption in the buildings and premises of public institutions by 10% until 2015 and by 20% until 2023
– At least 20% of the annual energy demand of new buildings will be met via renewable energy resources as of 2017
– Reducing GHG emissions in new settlements by at least 10% in comparison with existing settlements (which are selected as pilot regions and the GHG emissions of which are identified until 2015) until 2023.
Forestry
– Increase forest carbon sequestration by 15% of 2007 value until 2020 ( 14,500 Gg by 2007, 16,700 Gg by 2020)
– Reduce deforestation and forest damage by 20% compared to 2007 values by 2020
Land use change
– Integrate climate change in land use and land use changes management strategies by 2015
– Increase the amount of sequestered carbon in agricultural forestry activities by 10% by 2020 compared to 2007 values
– Quantify the carbon stored in pastures and meadows in 2012. Increase this by 3% by 2020
Transportation
The plan aims to ensure the balanced use of types of passenger and freight transportation, specifically:
– Increasing the share of railroads in freight transportation from 5% in 2009 to 15%, and in passenger transportation from 2% in 2009 to 10% by 2023
– Increasing by 2023, the share of seaways in freight transportation from 2.66% of tonne/km in 2009 to 10%, and in passenger transportation from 0.37% in passenger/km in 2009 to 4%,
– Decreasing by 2023 the share of highways in freight transportation from 80.63% of tonne/km in 2009 to below 60%, and in passenger transportation from 89.59% in passenger/km in 2009 to 72%
– Developing the necessary legislation, institutional structure and guidance documents until the end of 2023 for implementation of sustainable transportation planning in cities
– Dissemination of the use of alternative fuels and clean vehicle technologies in the transportation sector by making legal arrangements and building capacity to increase use of alternative fuels and clean vehicles until 2023
– Increasing efficiency in energy consumption of transportation sector by limiting energy consumption in transportation until 2023.
