General Compliance Analysis of Turkey's Climate Law No. 7552 in the Context of the Paris Agreement and the European Green Deal

Today, global environmental challenges issues including heat waves, extreme rainfall, floods as well as massive forest fires are alarming. Since the Industrial Revolution, these problems have become even more serious. Countries around the world have adopted international and regional legal regulations, such as Conventions, Protocols, and Agreements, that impose obligations and responsibilities on legal states to mitigate global warming and combat climate change. Among these are the Paris Agreement and the European Green Deal (EGD). The Agreement and the Deal have been established as international legal instruments aimed at reducing global temperature rise, lowering emission levels to desired targets, promoting green transition, ensuring sustainable production and financing, and providing renewable energy sources. Countries have felt the need to implement national legal regulations to avoid being economically and legally affected by international standards and sanctions imposed on climate action. Turkey has integrated international standards for climate action into its national legal framework by enacting Climate Law No. 7552. This law has established the legal framework for the steps to be taken by institutions and organizations in the country's combating global warming. This study aims in order to evaluate overall legal alignment of Turkey's Climate Law No. 7552 regarding the Agreement and the EGD using qualitative comparative method. Normative legal documents, official websites, academic research, and articles were used for data collection.