All posts tagged "environment"

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    S. Korea aims to have over 1 mln eco-friendly cars by 2020

    SEJONG (Yonhap) — South Korea will seek to have more than 1 million eco-friendly cars on the road by 2020 as part of its plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and generate new growth momentum for its...

    • Posted December 8, 2015
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  • china smog
    Beijing issues first ‘Red Alert’ over smog, schools close

    BEIJING (AP) — Beijing issued its first-ever red alert for smog on Monday, urging schools to close and invoking restrictions on factories and traffic that will keep half of the city’s vehicles off the roads. The red...

    • Posted December 7, 2015
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  • President Park Geun-hye delivers a speech at the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris, Monday. She vowed to create a 100 trillion won energy market that will hire 500,000 more by 2030. (Yonhap)
    Clean energy is Korea’s new growth engine

    Park calls for global citizenship education in 1st UNESCO speech by Korean President By Kang Seung-woo President Park Geun-hye has set her sights on investing in new energy businesses as a growth engine for Korea, turning the...

    • Posted December 2, 2015
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  • Seoul City Mayor Park Won-soon (Yonhap)
    Seoul, Beijing agree to boost environment cooperation

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Mayors of Seoul and Beijing agreed Wednesday to set up an environment team within a joint committee in charge of various exchange projects, Seoul officials said. Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, during his visit to...

    • Posted November 4, 2015
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  • Smoke rises from chimneys of brick kilns on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Never mind lowering the rate of death from air pollution in India and China. Just keeping those rates steady will demand urgent action to clear the skies, according to a new report published Tuesday. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
    India, China need cleaner air just to keep death rate steady

    NEW DELHI (AP) — Never mind lowering the rate of death from air pollution in India and China. Just keeping those rates steady will demand urgent action to clear the skies, according to a report published Tuesday....

    • Posted June 16, 2015
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  • LG President Ha Hyeon-hoi, right, poses with Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Governor Won Hee-ryong after LG agreed with the nation's southern resort island to jointly develop future energy projects. The signing was held in a main office in Jeju, Tuesday. (Courtesy of LG)
    LG to make Jeju free of carbon emissions by 2030

    By Kim Yoo-chul LG Group has joined with Jeju Special Self-Governing Province to push for new, eco-friendly energy businesses and make the island free of carbon by 2030. It said Thursday that it will convert the resort...

    • Posted May 29, 2015
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  • Annick Girardin, French Minister of State for Development and Francophony.
    Korea’s role crucial to fight climate change

    By Kang Hyun-kyung The risk of global warming is so serious that all countries, industrialized and developing, need to join hands in the global campaign to cut emissions, according to a French minister on Friday. Annick Girardin,...

    • Posted May 22, 2015
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