Ministry of Environment Launches 'Biodiversity Forum'... Outlines 10-Year Policy Blueprint

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Bo-kyung] The government has formed a public-private joint organization to draft a blueprint for domestic ecosystem and biodiversity policies for the next 10 years.

On the 30th, the Ministry of Environment launched the 'Biodiversity 2030 Future Forum' at the Best Western Premier Seoul Garden Hotel in Mapo-gu, Seoul.

This forum was established to diagnose the current status of Korea's ecosystem and biodiversity in connection with international trends and recent issues such as the climate crisis and the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), and to prepare plans for the next 10 years.

The forum includes 39 participants from government, experts, industry, civil society, and youth across four divisions: General, Green Restoration, Wildlife, and Protected Areas & Ecosystem Services.

Forum participants will be responsible for creating a preliminary plan outlining the goals and key tasks for national ecosystem and biodiversity policies through in-depth discussions by division and overall deliberations by the end of this year, targeting 2030.

At the forum's launch, co-chairmen Hong Jeong-gi, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Environment, and Lee Woo-shin, Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University, emphasized the importance of the forum and the active participation of the members through opening remarks and keynote presentations, and discussed the forum's operational direction with the members.

Vice Minister Hong stated, "The current climate change and COVID-19 crises are closely related to biodiversity loss," adding, "I hope that a policy direction looking ahead 10 years will be derived to diagnose the domestic ecological crisis, solve issues related to disease, climate change, and pollution, restore damaged land, and promote economic development based on ecosystem services."

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