SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Innovation Co. has received global certificates for the establishment of a system to measure the impact of greenhouse gases on the entire cycle of production for the first time among South Korean refiners. The company announced on Wednesday that it had received a string of international standard certificates [...]
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, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said Tuesday it will carry out a trial project for the improvement of cow breeding methods aimed at reducing greenhouse gases generated during the process of breeding cows. Over the past 20 years, the length of the cow breeding period was [...]
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, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A new forecast has shown that by the end of this century, summer will be around for more than half of the entire year unless current levels of greenhouse gas emissions are reduced. The Korea Meteorological Administration released a report on Thursday that makes a climate forecast for South [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s large companies have cut their greenhouse gas emissions by more than 9 percent over the past two years in an effort to cope with global environmental regulations, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. The volume of greenhouse gases emitted by 197 big businesses in Asia’s fourth-largest economy came [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Cabinet on Wednesday approved the government’s pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent from 2018 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. The pledge, which was passed at a Cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum, represents a significant raise in the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Friday drastically raised the level of its greenhouse gas reduction goal from 26.3 percent to 40 percent by 2030, as part of its broader aim to slowly phase out conventional resources and go carbon neutral by 2050. The revised aim in national greenhouse gas reduction, or [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will support research into processing livestock manure into solid fuels and biogases, as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced a plan to expand a program to turn livestock manure into energy, aimed at achieving a carbon [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The size of high temperature areas in South Korea has more than doubled over the past nine years, international environmental organization Greenpeace said Thursday, calling for efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse defines any land locations where the average midday surface temperature exceeds 30 C in August as [...]