Understanding material and energy use in the processes of decoupling CO emissions from economic growth.

The share of emissions from materials has dramatically increased over the last decades and is projected to rise in the coming years. Therefore, understanding the environmental effect of materials becomes highly crucial, especially from the climate mitigation perspective. However, its effect on emissions is often overlooked and more attention is heavily paid to the energy-related policies.

Decomposition and decoupling analysis of energy-related carbon emissions in Turkey.

This study focuses on CO emission trends and its decompositions as well as decoupling performance between CO emissions and economic growth of Turkish case for the period of 1990-2016. The drivers of CO emission changes are calculated by using an extended Kaya identity and the well-established logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) method. Decomposition results indicate that economic growth and population effects are the main driving forces in increases in carbon emissions in Turkey throughout the whole period, while other technology-based driving factors' impacts have been rather minimal in reducing the emissions.

How production-based and consumption-based emissions accounting systems change climate policy analysis: the case of CO convergence.

Much of the existing research analyses on emissions and climate policy are dominantly based on emissions data provided by production-based accounting (PBA) system. However, PBA provides an incomplete picture of driving forces behind these emission changes and impact of global trade on emissions, simply by neglecting the environmental impacts of consumption. To remedy this problem, several studies propose to consider national emissions calculated by consumption-based accounting (CBA) systems in greenhouse gas (GHG) assessments for progress and comparisons among the countries.