{"id":1427,"date":"2009-12-14T06:15:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T10:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2009-12-14T06:21:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T10:21:42","slug":"namas-and-south-koreas-green-growth-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/2009\/12\/namas-and-south-koreas-green-growth-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"NAMAs and South Korea&#8217;s Green Growth Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just attended a session called <em>Moving to a Low Carbon Pathway<\/em> at the IIED&#8217;s Climate and Development Days at the DR Koncerthuset here, in Copenhagen. The panel included two very interesting presentations from delegates from South Korea and Indonesia who presented their countries&#8217; NAMA (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action) Plans.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kim Chan-Woo outlined South Korea&#8217;s &#8220;Green Growth Plan&#8221; whose mission is to achieve harmony between environmental conservation and economic development. South Korea is in a unique position in terms of &#8220;common but differentiated responsibilities&#8221; in that it is both a developing and a developed country to different degrees. Mr. Chan-Woo stated that it is in Korea&#8217;s international and domestic interest to invest in a low-carbon future. As a part of Korea&#8217;s mid-term (2009-2013) and long-term plans (2009-2050) are the mitigation plan and a 10-part policy plan which is outlined as follows:<\/p>\n<p>1. effective GHG reduction- long term GHG goals<br \/>\n2. energy independence- 32% by 2009, 50% by 2020, 100% by 2050<br \/>\n3. strengthened adaptation capacity<br \/>\n4. promotion of green technology<br \/>\n5. greening of industry- export of green products<br \/>\n6. advanced industrial structure<br \/>\n7. groundwork of green economy<br \/>\n8. green transportation- increase in railway transport<br \/>\n9. green revolution in life- carbon labeling of certified products<br \/>\n10. leading green nation- increased share of green ODA<\/p>\n<p>In addition to these unilateral actions, Korea is committed to investing 200 billion USD per year for a 5-year period through the East Asia Climate Partnership to aid countries by funding low-carbon development projects. We interviewed Mr. Chan-Woo after the event and he told us that the focus of the projects they are funding are related to water conservancy and management. Korea itself plans to restore 4 major rivers in order to guard against floods, secure water, and improve water quality.<br \/>\nMr. Chan-Woo also outlined Korea&#8217;s commitment to GHG emission reductions at the COP15 of 30% from BAU, which is at the upper end of what is expected from developing countries given the current framework of the negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just attended a session called Moving to a Low Carbon Pathway at the IIED&#8217;s Climate and Development Days at the DR Koncerthuset here, in Copenhagen. The panel included two very interesting presentations from delegates from South Korea and Indonesia who presented their countries&#8217; NAMA (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action) Plans. Mr. Kim Chan-Woo outlined South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1811],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kyoto-to-copenhagen-course"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}