THE IMPACT OF CHANGING ENERGY MIX OF TURKEY ON CO2 EMISSION INTENSITIES

Abstract

A decomposition analysis of energy-related carbon dioxide emission intensities in Turkey from 1971 to 2010 has been presented. The refined Laspeyres method is used in the calculation to identify fossil fuel carbon effect, fossil fuel share effect and energy intensity effect that accelerate or reduce the increase in carbon dioxide emission intensities. The results show that the fossil fuel share effect and the energy intensity effect are the two biggest contributors to CO2 emission. The case analysis also shows that fossil fuel carbon effects play important roles in the decrease of CO2 emission intensities especially from 1988 to 2010.