Abstract

This article is composed for this edition of the journal from an unpublished doctoral dissertation. The two main chapters “An Overview on the Main Issues of Global Warming” and “International Policies Concerning Global Warming” were assigned in the doctoral dissertation. By drawing on these contents, the article first covers the concept of global warming, approaches of various theories to climate change, human activities that lead to global warming, and the socio-economic consequences of global warming. In the following part of the study, multilateral negotiations on this environmental problem were discussed, as well as the main contracts and agreements along with the policies followed by Turkey. Moreover, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement, particularly focusing on the most important initiatives of the last thirty years, and measures against global warming in Turkey’s domestic politics has been put together chronologically.The study was simplified for the publication of the journal by adhering to the path followed and the resources used in the doctoral study, and the subjects concerning Turkish foreign policy were added to the study. Throughout the study, scientific articles, books and book chapters, and online resources of the institutions providing statistical data and other official authorities were utilized.