Department of Climate, Environment and Energy Studies Selected for Carbon Regulation Response R&D Project
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- Writer 커뮤니케이션팀
- 보도일자 2025-06-09
Professor Ahn Young-hwan
Sookmyung Women’s University has been selected as the lead research institution for the main project under the Ministry of Environment’s “Comprehensive Management Technology Development Project for Responding to Global Carbon Regulations.” Under this project, the Department of Climate, Environment, and Energy Studies will receive KRW 2.5 billion in research funding over four years to carry out the task titled “Development of a Platform Technology for Assessing Greenhouse Gas Reduction Potential of Carbon Neutral Technologies.”
The initiative is an R&D project designed to strengthen national and corporate response capacities amid intensifying global carbon regulations. It consists of one overarching project and eight sub-projects.
Selected for the overarching project, the department will develop an integrated platform capable of quantitatively assessing the potential greenhouse gas reduction achieved through the adoption of carbon-neutral technologies. The total amount of government funding for the overarching project is KRW 6.6 billion, of which Sookmyung Women’s University will receive KRW 2.5 billion.
The university’s Research & Business Development Foundation is listed as the lead research institution for the overarching project. Participating research institutions include the Korea Institute of Energy Research, Kyung Hee University Office of Research and University-Industry Cooperation, Inha University Research and Business Foundation, BNZ Partners, and IGI Korea. At Sookmyung Women’s University, Professor Ahn Young-hwan serves as the principal researcher, with Professors Yoo Seung-jik and Lee Ji-yoon, as well as the Earth Environment Research Institute, participating in the research.
The research team plans to pursue the following initiatives: development of an NDC (Nationally Determined Contribution) analysis module and support for model development across individual sub-projects; development and pilot application of corporate analysis tools; design of the platform framework; and development of the platform for online services. The platform developed through this project is expected to serve as a valuable tool for national policy decision-making toward carbon neutrality and for corporate strategic decision-making in response to global carbon regulations.
Professor Ahn stated, “As pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions continues to intensify around the globe, an evaluation tool capable of estimating the greenhouse gas reduction potential of carbon-neutral technologies will be highly useful for both governments and corporations.” He added, “By collaborating with research institutions leading the sub-projects, we will strive to build technologies and a life cycle inventory (LCI) database suited to the Korean context. We will also enhance the accuracy of analysis results through the development of robust evaluation tools.”