Özet:

The increasing demand for fossil fuels, which has caused carbon and greenhouse gas emissions by the industrial revolution, is a threat to the environment and sustainability. These harmful emissions, which cause climate change, disrupt ecological balance and negatively affect public health. Turkey is in a challenging process in the sustainable economy vision due to the increasing demand for energy that is the main input in growth and the creation of fossil fuels that generate most of this demand. The use of clean, renewable energy sources that do not generate harmful emissions has a high potential and, despite recent efforts, remains at low levels, which further deepens the environmental negative. This study examined the impact of economic growth and renewable energy on environmental pollution for the years 1980-2012. Economic growth variable is the non-profit domestic revenue at fixed prices per person; renewable energy variable is the renewable energy consumption per person (including hydroelectric) and greenhouse gas variable is the greenhouse gas emissions per person. The series first applied ADF and two broken Lumsdaine-Papell unit root tests. In the first instance, it is seen that the units that contain the root of the series have reached the standpoint in the level. The matching relationship between series has been tested by the ARDL border test and it has been found that there is a matching relationship between series. The long and short-term rates of greenhouse gas emissions and growth in the model are statistically meaningful, while the rate of renewable energy consumption is statistically meaningless. Based on the vector error correction model, the Granger causality test found that there was a double causal relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth; in the same way, there was a double causal relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and renewable energy consumption. These findings show that the growth paradigm in Turkey is highly environmentally polluting. The recovery effect between growth greenhouse gas emissions indicates that when growth occurs in the economy, greenhouse gas emissions increase, and at the same time the energy supplied by fossil fuels, which mostly causes carbon emissions, is also the growth locomotive. Before environmental pollution leads to irreparable damage, a considerable distance in terms of energy efficiency and renewable energy incentives should be multiplied.

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