Green budgeting and fiscal policies in the preventing of desertification in Turkey

With the industrial revolution, many environmental problems have arisen depending global warming and climate change. Ever increasing environmental problems have reached a global dimension and it has become a threat to the whole humanity. As a result of climate change, important environmental problems like desertification, drought, decrease in water resources, change in rainfall amounts have caused searching for solutions of countries. Environmental policies have been developed in order to solve the environmental problems due to climate change. However, within the scope of reducing environmental threats, a number of financial instruments and forms of intervention have been proposed. One of these financial instruments is the green budget. The green budget is a budgeting approach aimed at increasing the effectiveness of renewable and sustainable resources in combating environmental problems. The aim of the study is determine the importance of green budget and fiscal policies in combating desertification. In this study, sources related to climate change, desertification and green budget were searched and relevant articles and studies were examined. In the first part of this study, the concepts of climate change and desertification are expressed and the international studies carried out in this context are examined. The green budget, environmental policy and green tax are the second part of the study. In the third part of the study, evaluations were made considering the financial instruments such as taxes and expenditures within the scope of combating desertification. Key Words: Desertification, Climate Change, Green Budget, Green Tax