Seoul City to Hold Green Lighting Ceremony at City Hall on 12th to Commemorate 5th Anniversary of Paris Climate Change Agreement

96 Cities Worldwide Pledge to Implement Greenhouse Gas Reduction Efforts

[Asia Economy Reporter Jo In-kyung] On the 11th, Seoul City announced that it will participate in the "City Hall Green Lighting" event hosted by "C40 City Climate Leadership (C40)" to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement and to signify its continuous efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The lighting ceremony will take place on the 12th from 6 PM for one hour, illuminating the entire Seoul City Hall main building with green lights.

The Paris Agreement was adopted by 195 parties at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in 2015, aiming to limit the global average temperature rise to below 2℃ compared to pre-industrial levels, and ideally to below 1.5℃.

This lighting event will be simultaneously held in 96 cities worldwide, including Paris, New York, and Los Angeles, where major buildings such as city halls will be lit with green lights, and the event will be promoted globally in real-time through social networking services (SNS).

C40, which organized this event, is a network of major global cities responding to the climate crisis, leading the implementation of "carbon neutrality by 2050" in each city.

Lee Dong-ryul, Director of Seoul City’s Environmental Policy Division, explained, "Seoul declared in July this year that it will move toward becoming a carbon-neutral city by 2050 to contribute to achieving the 1.5℃ target of the Paris Agreement. To signify our commitment to working together with C40 member cities to prevent the acceleration of the climate crisis, we will light Seoul City Hall with green lights."

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