Incheon to take on 78 projects, create 58,000 employment opportunities by 2025
On March 19, Incheon City hosted a subcommittee meeting for Incheon’s Green New Deal, and took a full step towards transforming Incheon into an eco-friendly city.
Following the Digital New Deal subcommittee held on the March 5, this meeting was convened to examine the performance of the Green New Deal and discuss future directions.
▲ Incheon’s Green New Deal is scheduled to promote a total of 78 projects with the goal of “environment and safety improvement, and creation of new growth engines.” (Photo of a donation event for the Incheon City Resource and Sharing Recycling Campaign)
A total of 78 projects are planned for the Incheon Green New Deal with the goal of “improving environment as well as safety, and creating new growth engines.” The initiative will aim to create 58,000 jobs by investing a total of KRW 5.6 trillion by 2025.
In particular, at this meeting, participants discussed the overall direction for the Green New Deal, recent achievements, and development plans moving forward, including the establishment of the foundation for a hydrogen industry by signing an MOU with hydrogen-related organizations, and launching of the Eco-friendly City Promotion Group (a control tower overseeing the promotion of maritime and environmental policies,etc.).
In particular, the experts who participated in the meeting gave in-depth advice on the future direction of the Incheon Green NewDeal.
▲ Photo of the Clean Ocean TF (a project included in the Incheon Green New Deal), and photo of the Sorae Port Sunset Bridge under construction.
▲ MOU for establishing the foundation for a hydrogen industry in Incheon
Professor Won Dong-joon from Inha University discussed trends regarding the transition from renewable energy to regionally-led distributed energy, and recent discussions on the introduction of a carbon border tax in Europe. He also emphasized that it is essential to transform Incheon’s industries/companies into low-carbon and green industries/companies in order to make them competitive in the marketplace.
Incheon National University professor Lee Hee-kwan advised that the progress of the Green New Deal should be inspected on aregular basis using performance indicators related to the Green New Deal. He argued that it is necessary to actively promote Incheon’s efforts towards becoming an eco-friendly city in public contests by central government ministries.
Ha-yeon Yoon, a senior research fellow at the Incheon Research Institute, proposed new projects for the Incheon Green New Deal, such as establishing a high-quality resource circulation platform with waste disposal points.
The Incheon New Deal Promotion Team, led by Deputy Mayor AhnYoung-gyu, and other related public officials participated in the meeting, and special committee meetings involving experts with expertise and field experience related to the Green New Deal, such as climate change and energy.
