한국과 영국의 탄소중립을 위한 위원회의 비교법적 연구

Abstract

Disasters caused by the climate crisis continue around the world. Record-breaking heatwaves and floods continue in Korea, and the scale of damage is gradually increasing. In order to respond to the climate crisis, the world is striving to achieve carbon neutrality, and Korea is one of the target countries. Because carbon neutrality is not just a recommendation, but an obligation to be legalized and followed by domestic law, countries around the world are enacting carbon neutrality laws to respond to the climate crisis. The UK is a country that has legislated greenhouse gas reduction targets to respond to the climate crisis early. In the United Kingdom, the people, private companies, organizations, and the country have come together to deal with disasters caused by the climate crisis and to respond to it, and have proceeded with various policies and legislation to respond to the climate crisis. Afterwards, the Climate Change Committee was established based on the 「Climate Change Act」 to promote policies to respond to the climate crisis. The Climate Change Commission maintains political neutrality and consistently promotes climate policies, gaining a lot of trust from the government and the public as an institution specializing in responding to the climate crisis. Korea also introduced various climate crisis response policies from the UK, one of which is the UK Climate Change Commission. Korea has established the ‘2050 Carbon Neutral Green Growth Committee’ modeled on the UK’s Climate Change Committee to play a role as a central organization in Korea’s climate crisis response policy. However, unlike the United Kingdom, where the Climate Change Committee was established early, there are some points for improvement in Korea because the system for achieving the goal of carbon neutrality was introduced not long ago. Therefore, we would like to analyze the UK's Climate Change Committee and discuss the improvement plans of Korea's 2050 Carbon Neutral Green Growth Committee, which will play a central role in responding to the climate crisis in the future.