{"id":274,"date":"2014-02-12T15:42:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T13:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sustineoistanbul.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2019-05-10T11:39:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T08:39:57","slug":"sustainability-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brikasurdurulebilirlik.com\/en\/sustainability-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

The argument on how to assess countries performance has been one of the long-debated issues.\u00a0 Argument that GDP is not sufficient to measure well being of the human-kind is no longer a unorthodox point of view.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though it is largely accepted that we need to beyond the current economic model and measure \u2018what matters\u2019 for the longer-term, it is not easy to come up with a widely accepted and universally calculated measure such as the GDP.<\/p>\n

In a recent article in Project Syndicate, S. Zadek comments on the topic (1):<\/p>\n

The question now the question on how to change the economic rules of the game to provide incentives for potential winners to drive progress \u2013 or at least neutralize likely losers\u2019 ability to obstruct (green economy).<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2026 markets alone should not decide on our collective fate; non-economic goals and metrics \u2013 both social and environmental\u2019 should be used to guide countries\u2026.<\/i><\/p>\n

Global Competitiveness vs. Sustainability Competitiveness<\/b><\/p>\n

Against this backdrop, any measure, which compares countries on metrics other that GDP and other well-established macroeconomic data, need closer attention.<\/p>\n

WEF\u2019s global competitiveness index has been around for a while, but the recently announced sustainability adjusted indices, enable us to compare countries performance on social and environmental topics.\u00a0 In the report (2), these indices are defined as measuring sustainable competitiveness, which make a nation remain productive over the longer term while ensuring social and environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n

Below are some tables (3), using the database at WEF.\u00a0 Looking at these tables, we reach a few conclusions regarding Turkey\u2019s relative performance within the emerging countries on sustainability.<\/p>\n