SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea decided to lower the greenhouse gas reduction target for the industrial sector, while maintaining the overall target to reduce total emissions by 40 percent by 2030 compared with 2018 levels, a presidential commission said Tuesday. Under the adjusted target by sectors, the industrial sector will be required [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Seoul saw greenhouse gas emissions by the industrial and transportation sectors decline during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic while emissions by households increased, officials said Tuesday. The estimated total greenhouse gas emissions in the city reached 45.46 million tons last year, down 0.3 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea emitted a total of 701.3 million tons of greenhouse gas in 2019, the environment ministry said Friday. The 2019 figure, confirmed by the Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Research Center, represents a 3.5 percent drop from the 2018 tally, according to the ministry. The decrease came largely from [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading shipper HMM Co. is stepping up efforts to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases from its ships. HMM signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Korea Bio Energy Association, Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co., and the Korean Register of Shipping [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s air pollutant emission-cap management system, which has been enforced in Seoul since 2008 to manage the capital’s air quality, will be expanded to cover almost all parts of the country this week, the Ministry of Environment said Thursday. The emission-cap system allocates yearly emission allowances to workplaces, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s fine dust emissions from coal-based power plants moved down 36 percent in the first three weeks of December from a year earlier, data showed Monday, after the country scaled down the operations of such plants for winter. Emissions of fine dust from local coal plants reached 828 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s government finalized a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 32 percent from 2017 levels by 2030, the Ministry of Environment said Tuesday. As part of the efforts to cut down greenhouse gases blamed for global climate change, the government aims to increase the cumulative supply of [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Chemical companies are alleged to have colluded with air pollutant measurement firms to manipulate data on emissions of fine dust, the environment ministry said Wednesday. A total of 235 chemical factories located in the Yeosu industrial complex were found to have plotted with four measurement agencies in rigging data [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — High-emission vehicles will be restricted from the center of Seoul beginning in July this year, as part of the municipal government’s new policy measures to reduce fine dust pollution in the capital, it was announced Monday. Grade 5 emission vehicles, mostly diesel cars, will be barred from entering Seoul’s [...]
OAK BROOK, Ill., March 20, 2018 (Korea Bizwire) — Today, McDonald’s announces it will partner with franchisees and suppliers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions related to McDonald’s restaurants and offices by 36% by 2030 from a 2015 base year in a new strategy to address global climate change. Additionally, McDonald’s commits to a 31% reduction [...]