Analysing the Global Fight Against Climate Change and the Turkish Context

Selçuk Gürçam

doi:10.47478/lectio.1004359

Abstract

After the Industrial Revolution that took place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe, increases in the machinery used, population and the need for energy have boosted the reliance on fossil fuels and the release of greenhouse gases. As a result of this, global temperatures, which had been in balance with the natural greenhouse effect, have increased, and the problem of climate change emerged. The search for a solution to this across boundaries phenomenon started to attract international attention in the 1970s. Since parochial actions cannot prevent climate change, the main arguments have concentrated on the fact that a solution is possible not through local or regional efforts but global ones, and each country’s contribution in proportion to its capabilities is necessary. Recent research has shown that if no solution is found, the temperatures will continue to increase even more, resulting in a severe threat to the living on earth. This article examined the factors that bring about climate change as a global problem, the symptoms and efforts related to this, and Turkey’s stance within this global effort.

Highlights

Climate is one of the essential elements making life on earth possible
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as the United Nations (UN) body for assessing the science related to climate change, prepared a report in 2001 and emphasised that the main reason for global climate change is human activity
Since global climate change affects a vast population, it will significantly impact many fields such as economy, politics and social structure. This undesirable situation strengthens the expectations for implementing precautions against global climate change (Jones and Mann, 2004; Wigley 2005; Anderson, 2010; Mertz et al, 2009; Anshori, 2020)

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Climate is one of the essential elements making life on earth possible. The Industrial Revolution, which started in the eighteenth century, is regarded as a milestone in the future of earth. The study shows that climate change is a threat to Indonesia with increasing temperature, excessive precipitation, rising sea levels and damaging food production. It includes detailed information about the impacts of climate change on the economy, poor people, health system, and Indonesia’s biological and environmental ecosystem. Gases in the atmosphere are permeable to the sunray, whereas they are less permeable to the longwave radiation re-emitted by the earth’s surface This natural process, which makes the heating of the earth possible and provides a certain balance, is called the greenhouse effect (Ni et al, 2013; Charlson and Wigley, 1994; Lindzen, 1990). (4) The precipitation in the eastern parts of North and South America, the northern parts of Europe and the northern and central parts of Asia has increased while it decreased in the

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