South Korea reduced greenhouse gas emissions

• 7 years ago (2016-11-29)
• David Flin

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The Office for Government Policy Coordination of South Korea has announced that the country’s greenhouse gas emissions fell for the first time in 18 years in 2014, with the trend predicted to continue. The OGPC said that greenhouse gas emissions fell by 6 million tons to 690 million CO2 equivalent tons, down from 696 million CO2 equivalent tons in 2013.

The decrease has been put down to an increase in the use of nuclear power plants, resulting in a decrease in the use of thermal power generation. In 2014, thermal power generation showed a year-on-year decline of 6.9 per cent.

Carbon dioxide accounted for 91.1 per cent of the total emissions, followed by methane (3.9 per cent), nitrous oxide (2.2 per cent), sulphur hexafluoride (1.4 per cent), and others (1.4 per cent). OGPC said that 94 per cent of the carbon dioxide came from fuel combustion.