President Jong-nam Kim of the Korea Institute of Energy Research presented on the “Technical Innovation Plan for Realizing Carbon Neutrality” at the “3rd National Science and Technology Advisory Council Plenary Meeting,” presided over by President Moon Jae-in at the Blue House on December 21 (Mon).

The National Science and Technology Advisory Council is Korea’s highest-level conference body in the field of science and technology with the President as its chairman, and is a presidential body that oversees budget allocation and policy deliberation related to R&D. This plenary meeting was organized to report science and technology R&D policies to the public ahead of the era of 100 trillion won in national R&D investment next year.

In a presentation on the subject of “Technology Innovation Plan for Realizing Carbon Neutrality,' Director Jong-nam Kim explained the core technologies for each of the four areas: power generation, industry, transportation, and home, commerce, and public sectors, and suggest that we need to develop technology focusing on core technologies, create a roadmap for commercialization and to prepare a CO2 reduction scenario for each technology in the future. In addition, he emphasized, “as a clear goal of “carbon neutral” has been set in response to the social challenge of climate change, we need to establish a roadmap for technology development and commercialization for each core technology such as high-efficiency solar cells and next-generation power grids and carbon dioxide reduction scenarios as soon as possible.”

In response, President Moon Jae-in said, “We need a precise strategy for science and technology development for a carbon-neutral society” and “science and technology must support the carbon-neutral roadmap. Only with science and technology will the roadmap be successful."