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The Turkish Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change
operates in coordination with other ministries. Most recently, with the Project,
“Capacity Building and Monitoring to Achieve Turkish Intended Nationally
Determined Contribution (INDC)”, which was started by Istanbul Medipol
University Climate Change Center (İKLİMER) in 2017 and competed in 2021,
the basis for the fight against climate change and adaptation practices were
determined for the Turkish Republic until 2050. To do so, previous reports
from the ministries related to the practices of all public institutions and
establishments on energy, industry, agriculture, transportation, construction,
waste, and economy are taken into consideration. The “Capacity Building
and Monitoring to Achieve Turkish INDC” Project was organized by Istanbul
Medipol University and monitored by the the Ministry of Environment,
Urbanization and Climate Change. The primary objective of the Project was
to make the necessary plans to meet the requirements of the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Kyoto Protocol, in line with
the Turkish Republic Statement of Policy Intent. It is thus intended to indicate
the projections on GHG emissions, and sectoral analyses.
In order to implement the practices and plans mentioned above in a
formal fashion, the most suitable and available internationally software is
chosen and utilized with some mitigation and adaptations works. In choosing
the type of software, the collected data is processed in order to obtain
significant information and additionally data variety and features are taken
into consideration. Data variety refers to the following points:
1. Primary energy sources (petroleum, coal, natural gas), technologies
to transform them into energy; the transfer of the generated energy
to sector areas; the amount of energy demanded by each sector,
2. Determining the energy flow amounts in a year based on the sector
and energy sources,
3. Determining the prices of the energy generation and transfer
systems,
4. The projections of demand for fuel oil, coal, natural gas and
electricity energy,
5. Throughout the planning of the project, determining alternative
sources and sectoral technology options, and related cost
effectiveness analysis.
6. The population projections and in accordance with it, the calculation
of Gross National Product (GNP),
7. During the application of the economic model, determining the
technical, GHG and political limitations,

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