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KEI Online Newsletter Vol.23 |
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KEI holds a proclamation ceremony for its new name |
The Korea Environment Institute (KEI) held a proclamation ceremony for its new Korean corporate name on Tuesday, September 28. Koo Yun-cheol, Minister of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, Jung Hae-gu, Chairperson of the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences, Han Jeoung-ae, Minister of Environment, and many others including six former presidents of KEI delivered congratulatory messages. |
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 In the event, Dr. Kang Hyeong Sik, Director of the Department of Planning and Strategy, briefly explained the history of changing the name. The Institute has endeavored to change its name for nearly a decade to make it properly reflect roles and responsibilities it has been assuming.
The consensus was that the former name limited its identity to making policy suggestions and conducting policy evaluations only, which was rather a narrow definition of the institute. |
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 Next, President Yoon Jeyong declared new roles of the institute, which now came to encompass a wider range of tasks with its new name, and outlined performance of the institute expected accordingly and outcomes it should endeavor to achieve in the future.
The declaration was recited by Kim Na Young, researcher of the Korea Adaptation Center for Climate Change (KACCC) and Kim Ki Hyun, administrative officer of the Human Resources Team. The cake cutting ceremony and a marker stone unveiling ceremony took place as well.
There are high expectations for what the institute will achieve under its new name. |
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The new issue of KEI Research Briefs, one of the KEI's English periodicals, will be published in October. Titled "Climate Change Adaptation," the issue will include three articles focusing on Korea's climate change adaptation policy of the past decade, the current state of climate injustice by region, and the development of policy support tools for quantitative evaluation of climate change policies. As adapting to climate change is one of pending issues worldwide, KEI expects that it will serve as a forum for discussions with our global partners.
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KEI Seminars  KEI held seminars on a wide range of topics this month:
o The Division of Environmental Planning: The current state of supply policies for domestic electric vehicles and charging infrastructure and the future direction
o The Center for Environmental Assessment Monitoring: Understanding wind power development projects
o The Sustainability Strategy Research Group: Cases and tasks of community-based resource recycling |
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o KACCC: Korea-Central Asia cooperation (Status and prospect of ODA projects of the Korea Forest Service
o NRC Research Group on Carbon Neutrality: Long-term strategies for climate change adaptation in the world's major nations
o Circular Economy Research Group: Digital product passport in a circular economy
Others discussed "policy development for green transition", "policy direction and research trend for realizing carbon-neutral cities", "deliberative democracy and referring to public opinion", "importance and implications of 2030 Nationally Determined Contributions", and more. |
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