The global warming brings various kinds of disasters. The intensity of abnormal weather extremes becomes stronger and oftener. To cope with this global warming and climate change, we can try to minimize the outcome from climate change, but we have to also try to get rid of causes of global warming itself, namely to execute mitigation measurement. According to the scientific research, the greenhouse gases cause the climate change and the global warming, therefore the emission of GHG should be diminished urgently. So far Korea does not take the responsibility to decrease the emission of GHG according to Kyoto Protocol, but the korean government established such a positive plan to cut 30% of the GHG emissions by 2020 from the expected 2020 BAU level of emissions and introduced the emission trading scheme. In this step the government"s plan met the opposition from industry side, but the government reached a compromise with the industry through patient dialogues. In this process of GHG emission reduction, the korean parliament enacted three very important Acts regarding climate change mitigation. According to the ETS the emission trading has started since Jan. 1. 2015. We hope that this emission trading scheme may contribute to the cutting effort of GHG beginning with Korea to the whole world. I anticipate that we may harmonize step by step interests of the related parties further and take steps toward the reduction of emission of GHG steadily. Regarding ETS the role of local government is very limited, but as to carbon sink it can do many things like designation of green land or ecological area according to the city planning law and the related law, award of subsidy to the activities of parties for reducing effort of GHG etc.
The global warming brings various kinds of disasters. The intensity of abnormal weather extremes becomes stronger and oftener. To cope with this global warming and climate change, we can try to minimize the outcome from climate change, but we have to also try to get rid of causes of global warming itself, namely to execute mitigation measurement. According to the scientific research, the greenhouse gases cause the climate change and the global warming, therefore the emission of GHG should be diminished urgently. So far Korea does not take the responsibility to decrease the emission of GHG according to Kyoto Protocol, but the korean government established such a positive plan to cut 30% of the GHG emissions by 2020 from the expected 2020 BAU level of emissions and introduced the emission trading scheme. In this step the government"s plan met the opposition from industry side, but the government reached a compromise with the industry through patient dialogues. In this process of GHG emission reduction, the korean parliament enacted three very important Acts regarding climate change mitigation. According to the ETS the emission trading has started since Jan. 1. 2015. We hope that this emission trading scheme may contribute to the cutting effort of GHG beginning with Korea to the whole world. I anticipate that we may harmonize step by step interests of the related parties further and take steps toward the reduction of emission of GHG steadily. Regarding ETS the role of local government is very limited, but as to carbon sink it can do many things like designation of green land or ecological area according to the city planning law and the related law, award of subsidy to the activities of parties for reducing effort of GHG etc.
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