This article analyzes the impact of Russia’s February 24, 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing war on Türkiye’s foreign trade. Türkiye’s shared maritime borders with Russia and Ukraine in the Black Sea and Russia accounting for a significant percent of Türkiye’s foreign trade renders the conflict all the more important for Ankara. Accordingly, this article compares the import-export data from 2022, after the war erupted, with the relevant figures over the last decade. Furthermore, the effect of the Russia-Ukraine war on the tourism and contracting sectors, which make the most positive contribution to Türkiye’s current account deficit and are at the forefront of the locomotive sectors, is also discussed.

There is a lack of empirical studies investigating the individual and combined effects of environmental policy stringency, energy transition, and green technologies on greenhouse gas emissions in the context of BRICS–T countries. To address this gap in the literature, the article presents empirical evidence from panel quantile, Driscoll–Kraay, and Ridge regression models for examining energy and climate action within the framework of Sustainable Development Goals 7 and 13 in BRICS–T economies during the period 1995–2020. The main findings obtained from the analyses show that environmental policy stringency, as well as the combined effect of environmental policy stringency with green technology, reduce ecological deformation. On the other hand, energy transition, green technology, primary energy consumption, and the combined effect of energy transition and environmental policy stringency have been shown to increase emissions. Dumitrescu–Hurlin Granger causality findings indicate that all variables exhibit two–way causality relationships reflecting the feedback effect. The results highlight that countries should focus on implementing stricter environmental regulations, promoting green innovation, adopting comprehensive fiscal and environmental policies, accelerating the transition from conventional to clean energy, and strengthening policy measures to achieve long-term ecological goals.