“Practice 1,834 people,” he said. Gwangyang’s carbon neutral, effectiveness and citizen health plays individually
42 people accomplished the seventh curriculum… On -site tour and life practice center composition
‘Education -oriented’ policy that turns away from the POSCO foot environment. Mijin to reply to citizen’s health rights
Gwangyang City accomplished ‘2025 Carbon Neutral Practice Training Training’ on April 30. The training was co -hosted by Gwangyang City and Jeonnam Gwangyang Climate Environment Network, and was operated seven times from March 26, and 42 residents accomplished.
Gwangyang City announced that it has cultivated residents who’ve spread carbon neutral and climate crisis and develops low -carbon practical capabilities of their lives.
The curriculum included Boseong Juam Lake Ecology Center and Gwangyang Sewage Treatment Plant on -site field trips to offer time to experience environmental conservation and carbon reduction technology. Gwangyang City has produced 1,834 carbon neutral practitioners from 2009 to the current, and plans to proceed training with the goal of achieving 2,000 people.
Hwang Kwang -jin, Director of Environmental Division of Gwangyang City, said, “It’s meaningful that residents have lived within the climate crisis and carbon neutral practice through education.”
What’s an invisible ‘environmental problem’?
The issue doesn’t stop here. The carbon neutral curriculum in Gwangyang City seems to have achieved educational results formally, but it is vitally distant from the air pollution problem of POSCO Gwangyang Works, which is the core of the environmental problems of Gwangyang.
Air pollutants (positive dust, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, etc.) occurred in Gwangyang Works through the years are directly related to civil health.
Based on the Ministry of Environment’s air pollution measurement data in 2020, the Gwangyang region has a high average concentration of positive dust within the country, and POSCO Gwangyang Steel Station remains to be the No. 1 workplace in air pollutant emissions in Jeollanam -do.
In consequence, civic groups and native residents have long demanded the expansion of environmental improvement in steelworks, disclosure of knowledge, and investigation of residents’ health impacts.
Improvement of fundamental air quality over the formal ‘practice’ education ‘
Gwangyang City has emphasized the ‘citizen participation’ environmental policy and has focused on the administration of ‘practice in life’ corresponding to practical education, energy saving campaign, and environmental education.
Nevertheless, the actual environmental problem of Gwangyang is directly connected to the citizen’s ‘living area’, which can’t be solved by education alone.
POSCO’s environmental investment implementation, expanding local customized health impacts, strengthening real -time air quality information, and these three are the fundamental conditions of carbon neutral that the town should deal with without delay.
Carbon neutrality is just not only done by the person’s efforts, nevertheless it is difficult to be realized without the structural transition of huge workplaces and the powerful coordination of the administration.
Gwangyang City Environmental Policy, ‘Three Great Conversion’ required
Environmental experts emphasized that if Gwangyang City is for the Seolhyun of the right environmental policy, it’s needed to “transparently disclose a consultation table with POSCO and enormous emissions and introduce a surveillance system where residents participate.”
As well as, through the ‘Citizen’s Health Survey and Advancement of Air Quality Monitoring System’, he ordered that “the health impact evaluation of the college and the residential area ought to be performed periodically and the outcomes ought to be shared with the residents.”
As well as, it is alleged that it’s needed to reorganize the sensible policy feedback, corresponding to the ‘local environmental monitoring team’, fairly than simply a graduate student.
Gwangyang City is heating up carbon neutral practices, however the environmental problems that residents feel with the skin are still not solved.
Formal education can not persuade ‘sustainable Gwangyang’. Town must now go on to the middle of environmental pollution. The scene is the start line of carbon neutrality, and it’s the approach to regain the trust of residents.
By Yang Joon -seok, reporter kailas21@aitimes.com
