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The Ministry of Environment on Nov. 19 will propose the Korea Climate Transparency Alliance at the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan to be held from Nov. 11-22. (COP29's official Facebook page)

By Aisylu Akhmetzianova

The Ministry of Environment will propose at an international conference on climate change comprehensive education to bolster the capacity of developing economies to respond to climate change.

The ministry on Nov. 19 said it will announce the Korea Climate Transparency Alliance (KCTA) at the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) running from Nov. 11-22 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

This initiative will integrate and expand ongoing education to help such economies respond to climate change such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate change. The ministry will set the legal and institutional foundations for the KCTA as well as support technical training.

This program is an expanded version of training international experts on greenhouse gas emissions run by the ministry's Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Research Center of Korea since 2017 and the Adaption Academy under the National Institute of Environmental Research of the Korea Environment Institute since 2021.

The ministry said it expects this initiative to help transparently review countries' efforts to respond to climate change and their contributions and help raise global actions toward climate.

"Our government has continuously boosted its capacity to respond to climate change through consistent commitment toward the goal of carbon neutrality and innovation based on science," Minister of Environment Kim Wansup said. "We will strive to launch early a Korean-style initiative so that all countries can successfully devise and implement climate policy."

aisylu@korea.kr