Korea Environment Corporation Establishes 'Local Government Carbon Neutrality ACT Center' to Strengthen Customized Support

The Korea Environment Corporation under the Ministry of Environment announced on the 26th that it has established the 'Local Government Carbon Neutral ACT Center' to achieve the 2030 National Greenhouse Gas Reduction Target (NDC).

The ACT Center stands for Assist, Consult, and Together, and serves as a dedicated agency that establishes basic carbon neutrality plans and supports implementation management for 243 metropolitan and local governments nationwide.

The corporation explained that at the ACT Center inauguration ceremony held at the Mozart Hall of the President Hotel in Seoul on the same day, officials from the Ministry of Environment, the 2050 Carbon Neutral Green Growth Committee, and heads of carbon neutrality support centers from 22 local governments attended and held a forum on the ACT Center's operational direction and cooperation measures between the central government and local governments.

The Local Government Carbon Neutral ACT Center will conduct performance analysis such as basic plan establishment and implementation results for all local governments and provide step-by-step customized support. Specifically, this includes △ technical support for local government carbon neutrality plan establishment and implementation management △ consulting for preparing execution strategies in various greenhouse gas reduction sectors △ support for harmonious cooperation between the central and local governments.

In the Yoon Suk-yeol administration's 110 national tasks, to accelerate carbon neutrality implementation centered on local governments, the goal is to establish carbon neutrality support centers in 100 local governments nationwide by 2027. As of this month, individual carbon neutrality support centers are operating in 22 local governments.

In the long term, the ACT Center plans to seek ways to strengthen core capabilities for regional carbon neutrality through cooperation and technical support with 100 carbon neutrality support centers nationwide.

An Byung-ok, Chairman of the Korea Environment Corporation, said, "The ACT Center will serve as a carbon neutrality technical support control tower supporting the central and local governments for carbon neutrality," adding, "We will continuously review the expansion of support areas and strengthen capabilities to contribute to the realization of carbon neutrality led by local governments and the 2050 national carbon neutrality."

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