Beyond the quest for a technological holy grail
Patterns of income inequality and the household carbon footprint in Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6094068 |
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| Authors | Eren Gürer (0000-0001-8238-1967, Middle East Technical University), Bingül Satıoğlu (0000-0003-2107-7739, Kadir Has University), Ebru Voyvoda (0000-0001-6887-5047, Middle East Technical University), A Erinç Yeldan (0000-0002-3123-4374, Kadir Has University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Pages | 4-31 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Perspectives on Turkey (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0896-6346 • E-ISSN: 1305-3299 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/npt.2025.14 |
| OpenAlex | W4411930021 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
Utilizing data on household consumption expenditure patterns and sectorial greenhouse gas emissions, we study the extent of inequality over Turkish households’ differentiated carbon footprint incidences. We harmonize the household budget survey data of the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT) with production-based gas emissions data from EXIOBASE3 and investigate both the direct and indirect emissions across household-level income strata. Our calculations reveal that the households in the highest income decile alone are responsible for 19.4 percent of the overall (direct and indirect) emissions, whereas the bottom 10 percent of households are responsible for 4.3 percent. We also find that for direct emissions, the per-household average of the highest income decile exceeds that of the lowest income decile by a factor of 11.2. Notably, 87 percent of the indirect emissions budget for the poorest decile is linked to food and housing expenses, underscoring their susceptibility to climate policies. We confer that in designing the net-zero emission pathways to combat climate change, it would not suffice to study the technological transition of decarbonization solely and that the successful implementation of an indigenous environmental policy will ultimately depend upon the socio-economic factors of income distribution strata, indicators of consumption demand, and responsiveness of the individual households to react to price signals
Archaeology · Carbon Footprint · Development economics · Economics · Footprint · Geography · Greenhouse gas · Holy Grail · Inequality · Natural resource economics · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Computer Science · Energy and Environment Impacts · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Mathematics · Geology
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