Now let’s communicate?…Companies are skeptical of the’Carbon Zero Committee’

It is pointed out that it is belated communication among domestic companies over the’carbon neutral consultative body’ by industry that the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy is currently promoting.

The Act on the Penalty of Serious Accidents, etc. (Severe Accidents Act) and the recommendations of companies related to carbon credits are ignored, and rather, they are pressured to take measures to solve the near-impossible matters.

According to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on the 9th, the’Petrochemical Carbon Zero Committee’, the second in the series of Carbon Neutral Councils, held an inauguration ceremony at SK Innovation’s Environmental Science and Technology Institute in Yuseong-gu, Daejeon this afternoon. It follows the’Green Steel Committee’, a carbon-neutral consultation for the steel industry that was launched on the 2nd. The Ministry of Industry plans to establish a committee in the order of cement, oil refining, and automobile industries.

The committee meeting is conducted in such a way that companies share carbon neutral policies and industry experts propose carbon neutral technologies. On the surface, the Ministry of Industry is a policy to listen to industry recommendations during the meeting and consult with relevant ministries and related organizations to support them.

However, the Ministry of Industry seems to be more focused on collecting data for the’Strategy and Vision for Industrial Transformation’ scheduled to be announced at the end of the year.

An official from the Ministry of Industry said, “After the establishment of the Carbon Neutral Committee for each industry, we will announce the strategy and vision for industrial transformation at the end of the year based on the contents of each committee meeting. We plan to support carbon neutral R&D (R&D) of each company in the mid to long term. However, so far, no specific application method has been available.”

The Ministry of Industry explained that there is no separate procedure for the committee to reflect the industry’s recommendation policy, but that it uses the existing communication channels of each ministry.

However, the companies participating in the committee say it is “feeling punished.”

An official from a petrochemical company said, “We are gathering companies that are forced to emit a lot of smoke from the chimney and ask why the smoke is coming out and come up with a solution.” “The technology in the domestic petrochemical industry is the world’s best. What is needed now is not just a committee of words, but a deregulation and substantial institutional improvement.”

The same criticism came from the inauguration ceremony of the Green Steel Committee earlier. A steel company official who attended the inauguration ceremony at the time said, “I don’t know what the Ministry of Industry wants competitors to talk about. We gathered to listen, but it is unknown whether simple sharing of opinions will lead to corporate development.”

Companies that have already been disappointed with the government’s unilateral communication over the Severe Accident Act and carbon credits are also skeptical of the Carbon Neutral Committee promoted by the Ministry of Industry.

Another petrochemical industry official said, “The Ministry of Industry should not try to formulate a corporate strategy, but should consider how companies can do it well.” “What is the use of the industrial transformation strategy without communicating with the companies that become successful?”

Earlier this year, major economic organizations including the National Federation of Entrepreneurs, the Korea Chamber of Commerce, and the Korea Employers’ Federation have complained through a New Year’s address, “Please remove the regulations that only impose restrictions on Korean companies. There is no.

It is pointed out that the desire for communication for carbon neutrality in the state that unilateral communication between the government and business has not been resolved is also irrelevant.

An official from the Ministry of Industry said, “(The Carbon Neutral Committee) cannot immediately hear the recommendations of companies and resolve them, but it aims to support the establishment of sound carbon-neutral management through consultations with relevant departments in the long term.” It will be reflected in the Act on Promotion of Carbon Neutral Transformation in progress.”