The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) will execute its comprehensive five-year climate action plan (2022–2026) starting this year with the goal of establishing Seoul as a “city safe from climate change” through 30% reductions in GHG emissions until 2026. Mayor Oh Se-hoon announced the comprehensive plan that was established considering the characteristics of Seoul as a...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) conducted its citizen-participatory “Waste Diet” program over the course of three months from last September to November with an assorted group of 164 households from single-person to four-person households. Each participating household voluntarily set their own waste reduction plan and weighed the amount of their waste disposal. Experts then assessed...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) has been measuring the Seoul metropolitan area’s particulate matter (PM) levels to monitor the air quality, and reported that the air quality recorded last year was observed to be the cleanest since its start of PM measurements with an average annual PM2.5 levels at 19.8 μg/m3, which is the lowest...   Read more

Seoul Grand Park has donated two wildcats that successfully bred naturally in captivity last year to Inokashira Park Zoo in Tokyo, Japan. This would be the second donation of a pair of wildcats as a part of the Seoul–Tokyo friendship program in 2002. Wildcats are listed internationally as endangered species, and the two wildcats that...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) began its “Green Seoul” campaign on Tue, Oct. 26 to raise public awareness on climate change and carbon neutrality, and form a culture of practicing environmental protection efforts. The campaign in Korean has two meanings of reducing carbon footprint and thanking citizens for their efforts. Carbon neutrality is a concept...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) arranged an opportunity to discuss practical efforts to actively respond to climate change with international cities as the role of cities to seek sustainable development and their post-pandemic response to climate change becomes increasingly crucial. The SMG is holding the Seoul Mayors’ Forum on Climate Change (SMFCC) online for two...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) is holding the international Water Seoul 2021 event to discuss water issues at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) for three days from Thu, Oct. 7 to Sat, Oct. 9, 2021. This event comprises three programs—an international conference, a water industry job fair, and a talk concert—to share the SMG’s water environmental...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) has implemented its “Driving Mileage” program to provide mileage points equivalent to the amount of greenhouse gas and particulate matter reductions achieved through a decrease in vehicle use in comparison to the previous year. Having attracted participation by one in twenty vehicles in Seoul, this program has gained momentum as...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) started its eco-mileage program in 2009 to incentivize energy saving in everyday life. Over the past twelve years from September 2009 to July 2021, one in five Seoul citizens participated in the program, reducing CO2 emission by 2.387 million tons to combat climate change. The program has seen an afforestation...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG), the Ministry of Environment (ME) and the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE) entered into an agreement to jointly establish an environmental education infrastructure with the goal of climate crisis response and preparing for a sustainable future. The SMG, ME and SMOE will build “Eco School,” an environmental education facility...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) signed an MOU with The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) on June 8 to respond to climate crisis and promote their Urban Forest Project. The SMG and HSBC’s collaborative Urban Forest Project is an ecological restoration project that aims to create urban forests to improve urban air quality, reduce...   Read more

“Pedestrian Forest Path” on Sejong-daero, which has been newly revamped as a representative pedestrian street in Seoul that connects the city center with people, culture and natural greenery, is open to the public this spring. In April, the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) completed the construction project for Pedestrian Forest Path on Sejong-daero with the objective...   Read more