Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Since the first explosion, our world has undergone various disruptions to reach its current state. During these processes, various resources and energy reserves have emerged on Earth. For many years, humanity has been using these depletable resources to obtain energy. As a result of these uses, waste materials that could cause various environmental harms to have been produced. While our planet lived in harmony and balance within a perfect mechanism, this process began to be disrupted, particularly with the Industrial Revolution. Today, the issue we refer to as climate change is the result of humanity's reckless use of fossil fuels without taking preventive measures, destroying forests and preventing nature from cleansing itself, and disrupting the balance of nature by urbanizing in an unregulated way and paving the land with concrete. The reason why we hear so much about climate change in recent years is because the damage caused by these actions affects all of us, and it is evident that the consequences will be even more destructive in the future. Nowadays, rising sea levels, droughts, disruptions in natural cycles, and large-scale damaging weather events are visible effects of climate change. In today's world, countries are coming together to create plans to take the necessary measures against these effects. As part of the climate change action plan, many countries aim to be carbon neutral by 2050, with the intermediate goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Achieving this goal, of course, will not be easy. It will require innovations, changes, and transformations in every field, as well as a significant increase in awareness. There is a need for energy managers, experts in their field, to take solid and correct steps in the fight against climate change. Therefore, the importance of the energy manager has been increasingly recognized in recent times. In many countries, including Turkey, it has become mandatory to employ energy managers in certain sectors during the construction and operation phases. As a result, the positive outcomes of working with an energy manager, when compared to previous data, are clearly visible. In the industrial sector, which is the primary contributor to climate change, the energy manager's responsibilities include calculating the environmental damage during the initial establishment of a factory and working to minimize these damages. Furthermore, energy managers are responsible for actions such as setting up renewable energy sources to meet self-consumption, identifying and preventing potential damages, ensuring the efficient use of energy, quickly adapting to laws and regulations to avoid legal penalties, and conducting consumption analyses to reduce costs. In this context, it is possible to compare two companies in the same sector, one working with an energy manager and the other not and demonstrate the numerical differences between them. As a result, in our era, where energy holds a significant place in the hierarchy of needs, it is essential to ensure that this resource is used in the least harmful way to avoid preparing for our own downfall. Humanity has become aware of the damage it has caused to the Earth and is now taking various steps to correct this harm. Experts' studies show that the energy manager plays an active role in combating climate change. To take rapid steps in this fight, every sector needs the required expertise.
Authors: Saadet Yelel, Fatma Didem Tunçez
Institution: KTO Karatay University
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7118013327
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