Climate Governance Integrity

  By: Elena Metelina As the world currently experiences a pandemic's effects, the global community recognizes the urgent need for climate actions more than ever. Many of the world's major economies have designed their COVID-19 recovery plans with a strong focus on transitioning to a "decarbonized" economy. To meet this challenge, South Korea needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 significantly. South Korea's relatively large carbon dependence results from an economy built around carbon-intensive industries such as automobiles, steel, and petrochemicals. The Moon Jae-in administration has recently focused on increasing South Korea's use of renewable energy. It developed a roadmap for transitioning parts of the economy away from fossil fuels to hydrogen. This includes the goal of having nearly 3 million hydrogen fuel cell vehicles on the road by 2040 and increasing South Korea's capacity to generate and supply hydrogen as a fuel source.[1] An even ...

  By : Abraham Sumalinog Latest Climate Change Issues in Korea A sounding almost ninety percent of climate scientists agreed that climate change is indeed happening. The consensus of climate change's truth and its adverse impacts do not take sides as it is being experienced by all people globally but in varying degrees. In South Korea, the most apparent impacts of climate change are the erratic changes in weather conditions, [1] including the unusual torrential rains and stronger storms, rising temperature and heatwaves, a regional adaptation of plants and fruit trees, dryer season that intensify forest fires, rising seawater levels, and water shortage, among other obvious signs. The untimely climate change crisis is due to the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG [2] ). Among those gases, carbon dioxide contributes an immense amount to the greenhouse effects, mainly caused by anthropogenic activities. We, human beings, are the culprits responsible for the devastating impacts ...