The European Union and Turkey’s Renewable Resources Versus Fossil Energy for the Sustainable Future

For all the advances being made by renewables and electric mobility, 2021 is seeing a large rebound in coalCoal and oilOil use. Largely for this reason, it is also seeing the second-largest annual increase in CO2 emissionsCO2 emissions in history. In this regard, the energy sector has to be at the heart of the solution to climate changeClimate change. Looking ahead to meeting our climate goals, which constitute avoiding to the greatest extent possible the worst effects of climate changeClimate change, we need deep decarbonizationDecarbonization. Therefore, as a radical solution the global warmingGlobal warming, the Paris Climate Agreement, made as part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeClimate change, set a common goal among all signatories. Fortunately, new government in USA has changed its position toward acceptance of the Paris accord. At the same time, TurkeyTurkiye is trying to bring the Paris Agreement to the agenda and ratified the previously signed agreement. For the sustainable developmentSustainable development, hydrogen economy can be an intrinsic energy carrier to an energy system that uses renewable resources, thereby enabling a complete replacement of the fossil fuelsFossil fuel systems.