Ulsan City and the National Carbon Neutrality Committee Seek Cooperation Measures to Achieve 2050 Carbon Neutrality

2024 1st Regional Forum on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth

Ulsan City, in collaboration with the Presidential Commission on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth 2050 (Co-chairs: Prime Minister Han Ducksoo and Kim Sanghyup, Vice President of KAIST), will hold the '2024 1st Regional Forum on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth' at 3 PM on the 1st floor Citizens' Hall of the City Council on the 20th.

This regional forum has been organized to enable local and central governments to share and communicate on current issues related to carbon neutrality and green growth in Ulsan, the industrial capital, and to seek practical cooperation measures.

Over 100 participants will attend, including Kim Sanghyup, Chairperson of the Presidential Commission on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth, Ulsan Mayor Kim Doo-gyeom, relevant experts, corporate representatives, related organizations, and public officials.

The forum will proceed with an opening ceremony, presentation session, and discussion session under the theme 'The Future of Industrial City Ulsan and Building a Hydrogen Industry Ecosystem.'

During the presentation session, Lee Hanwoo, Head of the Energy Technology Support Division at Ulsan Technopark, will give a presentation on 'Strengthening Ulsan's Hydrogen Industry Ecosystem as a Carbon Neutrality Strategy.' Son Jungho, Executive Director of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, will present on 'Carbon Neutrality Strategies and Business Progress in the Shipbuilding Industry.'

Additionally, Lee Homu, Director of the Energy and Climate Policy Research Division at the Korea Energy Economics Institute, will present on 'Ulsan's Conditions for Promoting Carbon Neutrality and the Status of New Industry Initiatives.'

In the following discussion session, Kim Junbeom, Professor at Ulsan University, will serve as moderator, and experts such as Lee Kyungsik, Commissioner of the Free Economic Zone Authority, Lee Kyungu, Head of the Economic and Industrial Research Division at Ulsan Research Institute, and Lim Hankwon, Director of the Carbon Neutrality Demonstration Research Center at UNIST, along with the presenters, will discuss strategies for promoting carbon neutrality in the industrial city of Ulsan.

Kim Sanghyup, Chairperson of the Presidential Commission on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth, stated, "Ulsan has the optimal conditions to industrialize hydrogen energy, with leading companies in floating offshore wind power and hydrogen technology, and large-scale industrial energy demand. If industrial development strategies are concretized and integrated with excellent infrastructure, Ulsan will be able to achieve both carbon neutrality and economic growth, and the Commission will spare no active support."

Mayor Kim Doo-gyeom said, "Ulsan has led Korea's economic development as the industrial capital focused on automobiles, shipbuilding, and petrochemicals, but it also emits a lot of carbon, so we are making great efforts to transition into a carbon-neutral city. We will intensively foster future new industries based on carbon neutrality, promote the creation of a hydrogen pilot city, establish a hydrogen mobility industry-academia cooperation zone, implement the government's three core projects such as the Hydrogen Regulation Free Zone, and continue to discover carbon reduction measures that reduce the burden on businesses, such as operating the world's first hydrogen tram and advancing carbon capture and storage projects by 2029, to make Ulsan a business-friendly city."

Ulsan City Hall

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