SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea plans to cut 1.6 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year from 2030 by utilizing cattle feces as a new source of energy, the government said Friday. Under the project, Korea Southern Power Co. will build related facilities and generate power, daily using 4,000 tons of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Greenhouse gas emissions by South Korea’s top 15 corporate emitters increased by 9.1 percent last year compared with four years ago, data showed Wednesday. According to the data from the Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Research Center released by Rep. Lee Hack-young of the Democratic Party, the combined greenhouse gas [...]
London, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) - CDP, the international non-profit that drives companies and governments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and safeguard water resources, has recognized CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI / MI: CNHI) as a global leader in sustainable water management, naming it as one of only 71 companies included in the CDP’s prestigious [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 1 steelmaker, POSCO, was the top greenhouse gas emitter among local companies, industry data showed Thursday. POSCO produced 71 million tons of greenhouse gases in 2017, accounting 11.3 percent of total emissions by South Korean companies, according to a report from the Korea Corporate Governance Service [...]
LONDON, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – CDP, the international non-profit that drives companies and governments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard water resources and protect forests, has recognized CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI / MI: CNHI) as a global leader in sustainable water management, naming it as one of only 27 companies included in [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will help developing countries reduce emissions of harmful greenhouse gases by offering technological support, the science ministry has said. According to a long-term climate technology cooperation plan announced by the Ministry of Science and ICT on Monday, South Korea will help developing countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with [...]
SEJONG, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the European Union on Friday joined hands to develop the former’s greenhouse gas emissions trading system (ETS) in a way to bolster their bilateral cooperation on climate change, the finance ministry here said. In a ceremony held in Seoul, the Seoul-Brussels joint emissions trading system cooperation [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A major business lobby in South Korea called on the government Wednesday to lower its reduction target for greenhouse gas emissions, saying that it is “impossible” to achieve. The government earlier proposed cutting greenhouse gas emission by 30 percent from business-as-usual (BAU) levels by 2020. It plans to submit its [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Environment announced that government organizations have succeeded in reducing approximately 400,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, or 8.1% compared to the standard exhaust quantity set for 2012. The amount of carbon dioxide reduced in 2012 is the equivalent to planting 78.8-million pine trees, and [...]