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Article: (2nd LD) Seoul expected to aim for 4 pct greenhouse gas cut by 2020.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will likely set its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target at 4 percent below the 2005 level in a bid to transform itself into a "green" country, government officials said Thursday. A presidential committee has been reviewing three options on the amount of the reduction and narrowed it down to two, including returning to the 2005 level. The other option of an 8-percent increase from the 2005 level was dropped, officials said. The government will make a final decision at a Cabinet meeting on Nov. 17 after consultations with political parties, they said. South Korea emitted 594 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2005, ranking ninth among ...