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The green growth policies, which have been promoted for the past three years in cooperation with the government, companies and people, shows a good performance in environment.
A core organization, which leads the policies, was created and greenhouse gas reduction footing was built. Also, the public awareness of the necessity of green lifestyle was raised and detailed policies have shown performances by each field.
Main achievements by each field contain the followings:
▶ First, green lifestyle was spread.
Food wastes, which had increased every year during the 2000s, reduced in 2009 in 9years. In 2009, food waste recorded 14,118tons/day, reduced by 6.7% compared with 2008(15,142tons/day) and it reached 13,516tons/day in 2010, reduced by 10.7% compared with 2008. Main factors of the achievement are the introduction of the volume-based food waste fee system and active participation in a food culture improvement campaign by the public.
In addition, the number of household which take part in the carbon point system exceeded 2million, equivalent to 11.4% of the entire households in Korea. It is expected that it will be expanded to 2.5milliion by the end of the year. Also, green card, released on July 20, has been issued through BC and KB card companies and is expected to be issued about 300,000 by year’s end thanks to active interest by the public.
▶ Second, comprehensive measures for the national greenhouse gas reduction were made.
Since the declaration of the low carbon green growth vision in 2008, the government set the national greenhouse gas reduction target ? 30% compared to 2020 BAU levels ? in November 2009, going through analysis by experts and collection of the public opinion. After that, the government has made comprehensive measures to meet the target. For example, it established the Greenhouse Gas Inventory & Research Center of Korea in June 2010 and set up the reduction target by field, business type and year after analysis for one year. Also, it introduced a greenhouse gas emission standard for an automobile and established a green building certification system as well astarget management system for the public sector.
▶ Third, renewable energy was produced and distributed using wastes.
Through waste-to-energy policies, renewable energy (5.12million toe, as of 2010), which is equivalent to about 2% of the national primary energy, was produced. From organic wastes such as food waste and waste water, biogas, equivalent to 585,873 barrels of crude oil, was produced and used as an energy source for electricity generation, automobile fuels and heating.
Based on the achievements for the past three years, the ministry of environment will promote core tasks for green growth actively and discover concrete successful cases for the public to feel. Also, it will make the volume-based food waste fee system take root on a national scale and reduce food wastes by more than 20% by 2012. Through expanding infrastructure for waste-to-energy facilities and technology advancement project, the ministry will promote renewable energy distribution projects without fail. Moreover, it will distribute the green card rapidly and increase the number of households, which participate in the carbon point system, to 2.5million so as to realize green growth based on the participation by the whole nation.
