Osan City Holds Comprehensive Green New Deal Plan Briefing

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] On the 15th, Osan City held a 2020 Comprehensive Green New Deal Plan Briefing Session at the City Hall Situation Room with Mayor Kwak Sang-wook and department heads in attendance.

Osan City's 2020 Comprehensive Green New Deal Plan has a vision of building a clean city of Osan in harmony with nature. Based on six strategic projects, it aims to complete a Green New Deal city with citizens and contains plans through 2025.

The main contents include ▲Creating green buildings in harmony with nature ▲Expanding eco-friendly vehicle distribution and public transportation modal share ▲Building an energy-independent city through renewable energy supply ▲Constructing a clean city through waste resources recovery ▲Expanding green city development and greenhouse gas absorption capacity ▲Completing a Green New Deal city with citizens.

At the briefing session, Sim Heung-sun, Director of the Environment Department, explained the background of the Green New Deal Comprehensive Plan establishment and Osan City's 20 years of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. He subsequently urged cooperation in establishing comprehensive Green New Deal measures.

Mayor Kwak Sang-wook, who presided over the meeting, said "The Earth is no longer the sole possession of humans, and global warming, natural disasters, and unprecedented pandemics are impacts caused by environmental destruction."

He continued, "In the case of parking lot energy zero-conversion, rather than limiting it to electric vehicle charging station installation alone, we should install solar power generation facilities on the upper level of parking lots to charge electric vehicles with the energy produced there, use it for office energy, and even sell surplus electricity to Korea Electric Power Corporation," instructing further refinement of the comprehensive Green New Deal measures.