LONDON/HOUSTON/SINGAPORE, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq:VRSK), has appointed Elena Belletti as Head of Carbon Research within the company’s Energy Transition Practice. Based in Madrid, Elena joins from the United Nations (UN) Headquarters, where she had worked since 2015, most recently as an economist in the office for financing sustainable [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Forest Service (KFS) announced plans to plant as many as 3 billion trees by 2050 to reduce or absorb 34 million tons of carbon per year. In a press conference held on Wednesday at the government complex in Daejeon, KFS chief Park Jong-ho gave a briefing about [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Monday it plans to overhaul a taxation scheme related to carbon emissions and set up a fund designed to fight climate change in a bid to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. The country also plans to accelerate the reduction of reliance on coal [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in announced a plan Friday to establish a presidential body on South Korea’s stated goal of going carbon neutral by 2050 as part of a “strong pan-governmental system” to push for the vision. He said the envisioned government-private organization, tentatively named the “2050 Carbon Neutrality Committee,” is [...]
BURNABY, British Columbia, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — In the face of global economic challenges, the Government of Canada is continuing to invest in innovative sectors such as clean technology to create well-paying middle-class jobs, grow Canada’s economy and address the world’s environmental challenges. Today, the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — As the Global Climate Action Summit concludes in San Francisco, the emphasis will be on commitments and actions communities, cities, states and countries can take to tackle the climate challenge. The Diesel Technology Forum encourages the world’s leaders to embrace ALL greenhouse-gas-reducing technologies and consider policies that increase [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The key focus of a 47.5-billion-won ($40.6 million) government project announced Monday will be on demonstrating and implementing viable technologies that can turn greenhouse gases or carbon compounds (CO and CO2) from industrial complexes into useful chemical materials, such as methanol. The project will be jointly conducted by the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will open a carbon trading system next week after years of delay, but the road ahead remains bumpy due to resistance from the business community and weak confidence in the nascent program. The Korea Exchange (KRX), the nation’s main bourse operator, will begin the cap-and-trade system on [...]
Seoul, Korea, August 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) announced that it received the Carbon Trust Standard certification. The certification ceremony was held on August 8 with a number of officials in attendance including Darran Messem, managing director of Carbon Trust Certification at Carbon Trust, and Jin Hong, chairman of the Korea Productivity Center. [...]