Launch of Public-Private Joint TF for Carbon Neutrality in Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport... Roadmap to be Established This Year

Yoon Sung-won, 1st Vice Minister of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Photo by Yonhap News)

[Asia Economy Reporter Moon Jiwon] On the 8th, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport held the first meeting of the Public-Private Joint Task Force (TF) for Carbon Neutrality in Land and Transport, chaired by First Vice Minister Yoon Seong-won, to discuss strategies related to the establishment of a roadmap for the land and transport sector.

This meeting was held as a follow-up to the inter-ministerial '2050 Carbon Neutrality Promotion Strategy' announced on December 7 last year, and as part of the preparation of the 'Land and Transport 2050 Carbon Neutrality Roadmap' scheduled to be announced at the end of this year.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport established a three-stage promotion system to develop an innovative and feasible carbon neutrality roadmap, consisting of ▲ the public-private joint TF ▲ two subcommittees (land and transport) ▲ and a working group.

Among these, the public-private joint TF is composed of various stakeholders including the Ministry, academia, research institutes, and civic groups, playing a central role in setting the macro-level direction of the carbon neutrality roadmap and proposing specific policy tasks.

Private experts agreed at the TF meeting that achieving carbon neutrality in land and transport by 2050 is a very challenging task, and proposed specific promotion strategies by each specialized field while introducing overseas cases.

In the building sector, opinions were presented that carbon neutrality elements should be reflected from land and urban planning, and that a national building energy performance diagnosis platform and carbon emission information system should be established to voluntarily induce energy performance improvements in private buildings.

In the transportation sector, opinions were raised that large-scale related investments are needed across logistics infrastructure, including demand-tailored public transportation systems such as metropolitan railways, effective systems to induce the transition to electric and hydrogen vehicles, and more.

First Vice Minister Yoon urged, "From buildings to villages and cities, and further encompassing the entire land, and from commercial vehicles to public transportation such as rail and aviation, I ask the public-private joint TF to actively propose promotion tasks so that the spirit of carbon neutrality can be reflected."

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