[SDG 7]: Istanbul Gelisim University Affordable and Clean Energy Report: [2019]

Abstract

Preface Global warming is one of the most important environmental problems that threaten basic living resources such as food, water and environment, which are essential to all creatures over the world. The cycle of population growth, industrialization, rising in energy demand and rising in resource usage detects the devastating consequences of global warming. Contributing to their welfare and development goals, countries that aim to gain power in global competition are triggering the release of harmful gases such as carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere while making their industrialization investments. Energy is the most important resource for a person to survive. Yet, the main point in energy supply policies should be to remove the environmental threat. In this way, the vision of global targets is a developing guide over the world. To make provision for the environmental effects of energy usage, supporting a sustainable economy with a policy that constantly supports and encourages renewable energy resources, plays a key role in reducing the ecological damages of global warming. With the effects of global warming, it has become inevitable that the striking ecological and environmental damages of climate change, which are difficult to reverse, are about to come to the fore. After international measures are taken, climate scientists predict that the struggle will only happen when everyone takes responsibility. Istanbul Gelişim University commits to fulfill its responsibility by continuing the scope of its work with international and national stakeholders day by day in order to minimize the damage to the environment with the effective and efficient use of energy in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the vision of producing more permanent solutions on climate and energy.

Assistant Professor Aslıhan Güzin SELÇUK, FHEA Community Service Unit Coordinator Sustainable Environment and Society Application and Research Center Manager