Greenhouse Gas Emissions Failed to Decrease Last Year… Net Emissions 'Increase' Due to Large-Scale Wildfires
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Last year, total domestic greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 0.9% due to sluggishness in industrial sectors such as steel, but net emissions increased by 0.5% as forest absorption plummeted by 22.8% due to wildfires in North Gyeongsang Province. We face the challenge of needing to reduce an additional 149 million tons over five years to achieve the 2030 carbon reduction target.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Jae-young = It was found that the decrease in the total national greenhouse gas emissions last year compared to the previous year fell short of 1%.
South Korea's greenhouse gas emissions last year were provisionally estimated to have decreased by 0.9% compared to the previous year. However, emissions from the electricity sector actually increased due to the rise in coal-fired power generation, and net greenhouse gas emissions also rose as forest absorption plummeted due to the impact of large-scale wildfires in the Yeongnam region. The 2030 national greenhouse gas reduction target (
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's greenhouse gas emissions fell 0.9 percent in 2025 from a year earlier, helped by lower output from the industrial and transport sectors, the environment ministry said Sunday.National greenhouse gas emissions
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