Abstract:

Since the industrial revolution, the demand pressure of humanity on the world has increased rapidly due to the increase in the use of energy in all areas of life. Because of this pressure, the face of the world began to change; problems such as the decrease in living species, especially climate change, the increase in health problems due to air pollution and the drying up of water resources have emerged. One of the most important steps taken in minimizing these problems has been to make more use of renewable energy sources. In this study, the effects of renewable energy and fossil fuel consumption on the ecological footprint in Turkey were analyzed using time series methods for the annual data for the period 1984-2018. Cointegration tests have shown that there is a long-term relationship between both renewable energy-ecological footprint and fossil fuel-ecological footprint. The FMOLS estimator, which was used to obtain the long-term coefficients, indicated that renewable energy consumption and population variables had a negative effect on the ecological footprint, while the fossil fuel consumption, financial development index and GDP per capita variables had a positive effect.

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