Daejeon Green Growth Forum

The Daejeon Green Growth Forum is a think tank established for open exchange concerning environmental policy involving members of academia, research institutes, business, central and local government, NGOs, religious groups and the media from around Korea, but particularly the city of Daejeon where it was founded. It is closely tied to the national Green Growth Forum that was established in Seoul on Sept. 9, 2008, under the aegis of the Korean Ministry of the Environment.

The Daejeon Green Growth Forum works with the mayor of Daejeon Metropolitan City to take a leadership position on environmental issues by tapping into Daejeon's research capability to rejuvenate the city and serve as a model for other developing cities.^[1]

The Daejeon Green Growth Forum was formally launched on November 27, 2008, although the members had been meeting informally previously. The Daejeon Green Growth Forum consists of an executive office and advisory board. Yang Ji-won, Vice President of KAIST University serves as chairman. He administers the forum with the vice chairman Ho Kang, director of the Daejeon Environmental Technology Development Center of Chungnam University. The forum is run in cooperation with the Asia Institute at SolBridge International School of Business.^{[citation needed]}

Experts are assigned to one of three working groups: climate change technologies (reducing greenhouse gases, energy independence), green industries (environmental technology development), and the green society (the revolution in daily life, education about the environment). The forum serves to involve experts from different fields in environmental policy and planning.^{[citation needed]}

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