Türkiye’de Çevresel “Dibe Doğru Yarış”: Kirlilik Yaratan Sektörler ve Rekabet Gücü

“Race to the bottom” can be defined as countries loosening, giving up or not trying to increase the standards to protect environment or workforce in order not to stay out of international competition. In this study, environmental race to the bottom discussed in a way that if Turkey creates competitiveness in polluting sectors in parallel with this definition. According to findings for 2019, Turkey has competitiveness among 60 per cent of the polluting sectors, when the number of the sectors has taken into consideration. The polluting sectors having large proportion among the competitive sectors, may indicate that Turkey joins the race to the bottom in international market.