Jang Daul

I recently visited the National Assembly to attend a panel discussion on offshore wind power and saw the climate clock installed in front of the parliamentary building. The clock warned that if humanity continues to emit greenhouse gases at the current rate, we will exceed the critical threshold for irreversible global boiling in just four years and four months.

On March 13, the Assembly reestablished the Special Committee on Climate Crisis (Climate Special Committee). This committee will monitor the government's greenhouse gas reduction and carbon neutrality policies and propose institutional improvements. Comprising 20 members, the committee will function until May next year.

In fact, following last year’s April general election, 10 newly elected legislators from various parties held a press conference urging the Climate Special Committee’s permanent establishment. These legislators called for granting the committee substantial legislative and budgetary authority to prevent it from becoming another symbolic entity like its predecessor in the 21st National Assembly.

While the reestablished Climate Special Committee now has the authority to deliberate on key legislation, such as the Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth Act and the Emissions Trading Act, its one-year operational........

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