Economic growth and CO2 emissions in Turkey

Abstract

After the 19 th century, Energy has become an important and indispensable input to production and consumption activities. At the same time energy, a determinant of growth for the national economies, is the main source of economic growth. We aim to investigate the relationship between economic growth and CO2 emission for Turkey which is located in developing countries. In accordance with this aim, Turkey will be analyse with time series method over the period 1960-2011.In this study, GDP per capita will be taken for economic growth and CO2 emisions (metric tons per capita) will be taken for CO2 emission. The datas in this study will be selected annually.