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Korea eyes ear of ‘green growth 2.0’
November 12, 2013
Korea eyes ear of ‘green growth 2.0’
Despite concerns that it has weakened its commitment, Korea remains determined to fight global warming by pushing through carbon reduction projects at home and boosting international cooperation, the nation’s ambassador for climate change said. Shin Boo-nam, a top environmental expert at the Foreign Ministry, envisions a big leap forward in the country’s environmental activities in the coming years as it follows through on existing emission pledges and carbon-cutting programs.
“The Park Geun-hye government, too, sees sustainable development as a national goal and is looking into how to go about it, in which green growth is a key tool along with support for other developing countries,” Shin said in a recent interview with The Korea Herald.
Reflecting the government’s newly affirmed resolve is a recently re-launched commission on green growth, Shin said. Albeit with a smaller workforce, role and level of power under the prime minister, the organization would embrace a bottom-up approach given expanded contribution by scholars and civic groups.
“I think this would usher an era of green growth 2.0,” the ambassador said. “In this administration, we will build a new green growth model with greater grassroots participation, compared with its predecessor’s top-down approach.”
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