Gwangju City Seeks Subcontractors for 'Low-Carbon Green Apartment Development Project'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 11th that it is recruiting local subsidy project operators for the citizen-participatory ‘Low-Carbon Green Apartment Creation Project’ to reduce greenhouse gases in daily life.

The ‘Low-Carbon Green Apartment Creation Project’ is a resident-participatory greenhouse gas reduction project first launched nationwide by Gwangju City in 2010. Until last year, it has reduced a total of 14,079 tons of greenhouse gases, achieving the effect of planting approximately 2.13 million 30-year-old pine trees.

The applicants for the local subsidy project operators must be non-profit corporations or organizations located in Gwangju City with extensive experience in citizen practice activities for greenhouse gas reduction.

Once selected as a project operator, they will comprehensively evaluate the reduction performance of electricity, gas, water, and food waste at 50 apartment complexes with more than 100 households at the end of the year, and finally select 40 apartments with excellent performance.

In particular, this year, customized diagnosis and consulting will be conducted for each apartment to achieve practical greenhouse gas reduction effects. Education on the impact of greenhouse gases on the environment and ways to reduce greenhouse gases will be provided online in a non-face-to-face manner for managers and residents to encourage daily practice.

Gwangju City will provide a prize of 180 million KRW and an excellent green apartment certification plaque to outstanding apartment complexes.

The prize money will be used for energy saving, food waste reduction, and spreading green living practices.

The announcement for recruiting subsidy project operators will be posted on the Gwangju City website until the 14th, and applications can be submitted in person or by mail to the Gwangju City Climate and Environment Policy Division from the 12th to the 14th.

Song Yong-su, head of the Climate and Environment Policy Division of the city, said, “Our city declared a 2045 carbon-neutral energy self-reliant city last year and is establishing mid- to long-term plans and goals. We hope that citizens voluntarily participate in reduction efforts and that apartment complexes actively participate to contribute to the creation of an energy self-reliant city.”

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