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- Title: On the Views of Carbon Tax in Korea (Report)
- Author : American Journal of Applied Sciences
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 156 KB
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INTRODUCTION UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) has been agreed upon in Rio in 1992. This led to the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 by establishing a goal to reduce greenhouse gas among countries. It has been an important issue since the mid-1980s. The purpose of this agreement is to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels which causes the greenhouse effects. Because of this, global warming has become a serious matter to be solved by m andatory controls to use less fossil fuels. According to this agreement, the developed countries should reduce the emission of greenhouse gas from 2008 to 2012 by 5.2% average to maintain the emission level of 1990. The greenhouse gas to be reduced in Kyoto Protocol is comprised of carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2]), methane (C[H.sub.4]), nitrous oxide ([N.sub.2]O), hydro fluorocarbon(HFCs), sulfur fluoridation (SF6) and perfluorocarbon (PFCs).