S. Korea's carbon emissions rose 2.9 pct in 2007

SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's emissions of greenhouse gas rose 2.9
percent from a year earlier in 2007, a government statistics showed Monday,
nearly three times faster than the growth rate of 2006.

The Ministry of Knowledge Economy said the 2007 data was based on a calculating
method required by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
It's the first time that South Korea used the U.N. method in calculating the
nation's greenhouse gas inventory.
The data showed South Korea's emissions of greenhouse gas stood at 620 million
metric tons in 2007, compared with 602 million metric tons in 2006, which was up
1 percent from the year before.
The ministry attributed a brief decline in nuclear-powered electricity and rises
in the number of thermal power generators to the sharp rise of emissions in 2007.

Early last month, South Korea, one of the OECD's fastest-growing carbon
polluters, unveiled an ambitious, voluntary target to reduce emissions of
greenhouse gas by four percent of 2005 levels by 2020.
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