Establishment of Green Energy Technology Value Chain for Transition to Carbon-Neutral Economy in the GAP Region

The greenhouse gas emissions resulting from energy production and consumption are considered to be the root cause of the human-driven climate change and new global quests are at the top of the agenda of the energy sector within the scope of the negative effects of the climate change on the life quality, environment, water resources, agricultural and food resources and the national economies.Hence, the Low-Carbon Production technologies create opportunities and contribute to the new employments and the development of new commercial areas. There is a considerable amount of indicators pointing out that similar opportunities could well be influential in development of the GAP Region.The purpose of this study is to identify a value chain that will contribute to the realization of a development model that is based on a low-carbon footprint in all subsectors of the economic system and to improvement of the competitiveness of the GAP Region. For this reason, innovative approaches are developed to be utilized in the determination of the strategy and the action plans that are required to be applied in the region. What lies behind these innovative approaches is the generation of a value chain for renewable energy technologies with a high potential of application and favorable conditions and for energy efficiency technologies that are not yet widespread. Thus, it will be possible to model the most effective use of the resources in all production and service areas in the GAP Region, to improve the efficiency, to reduce the carbon emissions, and to ensure a sustainable and green growth.It is discussed here how the sustainable and green growth model will be created by the innovative and integrated approach developed in this study, taking into account the supply, stakeholder and value chains, and supported by application models