Topic: Environmental Impacts of Emerging Energy Technology
Country: Turkey
Delegate Name: Mete Odabasi
School: Roeper School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Turkey position papers GLIMUN 2010 committees
The Republic of Turkey feels it is necessary to have international, collective responsibility for preserving the environment. Energy is a strong tool in fighting poverty. Sustainable development can only be achieved if a secure, uninterrupted, reliable and affordable energy supply is ensured. One has to find the balance between sustainability and producing energy to an amount that ensures social welfare and economic growth. Governments should develop new policies to reverse the upward trends in greenhouse gas emissions. Fossil fuel energy should be replaced with more renewable forms of energy; this shift needs some time and can’t be done overnight.
Two key points are to achieve sustainable energy development and energy efficiency. The Republic of Turkey is putting a major effort into developing safe technologies, including solar, wind, and geothermal sources. Also, while often criticized for its problems, Turkey believes in safe nuclear technologies, within the IАЕА norms and NPT obligations, respecting the right to peaceful use of nuclear energy.
The Republic of Turkey believes that renewable energy can lead to an environmental and economical win-win situation. Turkey supports investments into new energy technologies. Undeveloped counties should be given monetary support so that they can invest in new technology, and make this technology the basis of their development power, so that they can have “green growth” as the Republic of Korea has tried to promote as a main UN policy the past several years.
In closing, the Republic of Turkey is ready to take steps in the direction of more environmental sustainability, but this problem has to be solved as a team because it concerns every human being on this planet.
