Cheol-Soo Lee, Printmaker Jong-Ho Hong, Professor of Seoul National University, etc.
5 co-representatives elected at the delegates’ conference on the 27th
‘De-coal-free plastic’ decided to focus on this year
Choon-i Kim is the new Secretary-General of the Federation of Environmental Movements. Provided by the Environmental Movement Association
The Federation of Environmental Movements elected new executives, including five joint representatives for the 13th term. They will lead the activities of the Environmental Movement Alliance for the next three years. On the 27th, the Korea Federation for Environmental Movement announced that it had elected five co-representatives for the 13th term with a three-year term by holding an online delegates conference. Kim Soo-dong, the executive representative of the Andong Environment Association, who has been working to close and relocate the Youngpoong smelter, Saemangeum lawsuit, Kim Ho-cheol, the chairman of the Environmental Law Center (lawyer) who conducted a lawsuit for canceling the lifespan extension of Wolseong Unit 1, and Park Mi-kyung, the Gwangju Environmental Movement Association, who has built a national regional network Chairman, print artist Lee Chul-soo, who worked on works containing messages of life, environment, and peace, and participated in the movement against construction of Jeju 2nd Airport, and Hong Jong-ho, a professor at the Graduate School of Environment, Seoul National University, who has studied the industrial and economic ramifications related to the climate crisis. Elected. The new secretary-general will be Vice-Chancellor Kim Chun-i, who has been involved in environmental movement since 1995. He has been engaged in ecological conservation activities for a long time, including opposing Taiwanese nuclear waste to North Korea, saving Saemangeum, and opposing the Four Rivers Project. At the end of last year, he was elected the new secretary-general through a vote of all activists. The new Vice-Chancellor will be appointed by Lee Young-woong, Secretary General of the Jeju Environment Association. It has included accusations of environmental destruction in Jeju, such as the Songaksan development project, the naval base, and the construction of the second airport. Attorney Byun Young-cheol, who has been working to relieve asbestos victims, and Lee Tae-il, Secretary General of Ecopeace Asia, who has been working to prevent desertification in China and Inner Mongolia, will be in charge of the project audit. At the Congress of the Environmental Movement, the Federation of Environmental Movements announced a resolution calling for a major transition to an ecological society to overcome the climate crisis. Through the resolution, he criticized, “Last year, despite the government’s declaration of carbon neutrality in 2050 and implementing the Green New Deal policy to overcome the Corona 19 crisis, it is lukewarm about the early exit of coal power plants.” Also, “Gadeok, which runs counter to the climate crisis, also passed the new airport special law. We have to keep in mind that if there is no fundamental change, a bigger crisis will come. “We will take action to stop the crisis with those who are at the forefront of the climate crisis and the young people who will bear the burden.” The Environmental Movement Alliance decided to △a nationwide campaign to establish a coal de-coaling roadmap in 2030 and to prepare policy alternatives to expand renewable energy △to monitor the plastic reduction process by the government and companies, and to expand citizen participation campaigns. By Choi Woo-ri, staff reporter [email protected]