Dr. Ezgi Ediboğlu Sakowsky

Edited Works

Aberdeen Student Law Review Vol. 8, Aberdeen 2018 (together with Kieran Buxton).

• https://www.abdn.ac.uk/law/documents/ASLR%20Volume%208%20PDF.pdf

Contributions to Collected Editions, Commentaries, Handbooks and Encyclopaedias

Türkiye: A Climate Financing Opportunist?, in: Michael Kaeding, Johannes Pollak, Paul Schmidt (eds.), Climate Change and the Future of Europe. The Future of Europe ( The Future of Europe (TFOE)), Springer, Cham 2023, 163 - 166. DOI

• Türkiye finally ratified the Paris Agreement in 2021, declaring that Türkiye ‘will implement the Paris Agreement as a developing country’, thereby continuing its ongoing battle to be recognised as such under the United Nations climate change regime, a development which would prompt considerable climate financing. It was probably no coincidence that Türkiye ratified this Agreement after the World Bank, Germany and France had promised some additional bilateral climate financing. Considering that climate change-related activities have amounted to a very low percentage of public spending so far, a legitimate concern for Türkiye’s efforts emerges: is the country merely a climate finance opportunist?

Karadeniz’deki Ekolojik Krizin Hukuki Analizi ile Türkiye ve Rusya’nın Duruma Etkileri (The Legal Analysis of the Ecological Crisis in the Black Sea and the Effects of Turkey and Russia on the Issue), in: Elife H. Kılıçbeyli (ed.), 100. Yılında Türkiye Rusya İlişkileri: Çok Taraflı Gelişmeler, Karşılıklı Etkileşimler, NIKA Yayınevi 2021, 55 - 91.

WTO's Environmental Goods: Technical and Legal Scope, in: Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Applied Informatics and Related Areas 2020, 52 - 56.

• http://ais.amk.uni-obuda.hu/proceedings/2020/AIS2020_Proceedings.pdf
• Event: 15th International Symposium on Applied Informatics and Related Areas, Székesfehérvár, Hungary, 2020-11-12

Journal Articles

The Paris Agreement: Effectiveness Analysis of the New UN Climate Change Regime, University College of Dublin Law Review 17 (2017), 164 - 201.

Ecosystem Rights in Respect of Ecologic Law, Union of Turkish Bar Associations 121 (2015), 257 - 276.

• Rights of environmental law are regulated in several legislations such as the constitution and other laws. However, the inadequacy of the scope and wide base of regulations of the environmental law and environmental rights bring about the need of reregulation. As a result of this need, ecosystem rights, which approach the ecosystem as a subject, and ecological law, which covers a wider scope than the environmental law, have become a topic in the area of law. This article addresses the existing regulations, which include judicial and non-judicial ways, and the expectations on future regulations on ecosystem rights in accordance with ecological law.
  
• http://tbbdergisi.barobirlik.org.tr/m2015-121-1530

Research Papers

Paris Anlaşması Öncesi ve Sonrası İklim Değişikliğine Yönelik Bütçeler: Büyükşehir Belediyesinin Çevre Koruma ve İklim Değişikliği (ÇKİD) ile ilgili Performans Hedeflerinin Karşılaştırılması: 2021 - 2022 İzleme Sonuçlarının Karşılaştırılması (Budgets for Climate Change Before and After the Paris Agreement: Comparison of Performance Targets of 14 Metropolitan Municipalities on Environmental Protection and Climate Change (ÇKİD): Comparison of Monitoring Results from 2021-2022), 2022, 32 pp. (together with Nurhan Yentürk et al.).

• https://www.kahip.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/CKID-171022.pdf

İklim Değişikliği ile Mücadelede Teknoloji, Türkiye için Öneriler, Bölüm I: Çevreye Duyarlı Teknolojilerin Transferi, Istanbul Policy Center, Istanbul 2022, 20 pp.

• https://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/Content/Images/CKeditorImages/20220909-14090883.pdf
• Also available in English language

Technology for Combating Climate Change, Proposals for Turkey, Part I: The Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies, Istanbul Policy Center, Istanbul 2022, 20 pp.

• The transfer of environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) is universally recognized as one of the most effective ways to combat climate change. 1 These technologies contribute to our fight against climate change by lowering emissions and improving our resilience to climate change. 2 This series of papers will discuss the concept of ESTs, assess the compatibility of international laws and Turkish laws related to the transfer of ESTs, and propose new domestic laws and policies to create an environment conducive to their transfer.
  These proposals will also identify international projects, funds, mechanisms, and institutional frameworks that
  are available for Turkish actors to transfer ESTs. Since Turkey is planning to achieve its recently announced carbon-zero target by 2053,3 this paper series aims at bringing much-needed awareness to the issue of EST
  transfer and proposing regulatory and practical remedies. This paper is the first paper in the series and aims at setting the scene and clarifying the concept of the
  transfer of ESTs. First, the role of technologies in combating climate change is identified. Following this, the concept of ESTs and the transfer of ESTs are discussed. Subsequently, the relevant aspects of the United Nations (UN) climate change regime in the transfer of ESTs are outlined. The relevance of the international trading regime in the transfer of ESTs is then discussed. This paper argues that tension between the climate change and international trading regimes related to the transfer of ESTs will likely emerge. How Turkey can
  manage this tension and govern the issue domestically is the main question arising from the analysis. The last section provides a brief explanation of the future papers in this series, which will progressively answer this central question.
• https://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/Content/Images/CKeditorImages/20220518-11052689.pdf
• Also available in Turkish language

İklim Değişikliği ile Mücadelede Teknoloji, Türkiye için Öneriler, Bölüm II: Türkiye’de Çevreye Duyarlı Teknoloji Transferi (Technology for Combating Climate Change, Proposals for Turkey, Part II: Turkish Approach to the Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies), Istanbul Policy Center, Istanbul 2022, 14 pp.

• https://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/Content/Images/CKeditorImages/20220617-12065928.pdf