[Thematic Report] Lawyer Soyoung Lee is on a mission: Can Her Proposal For a Green New Deal Turn South Korea From a Climate Villain to a Model?

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[Thematic Report] Lawyer Soyoung Lee is on a mission: Can Her Proposal For a Green New Deal Turn South Korea From a Climate Villain to a Model?
by Yvonne An \| 16-08-2020 05:29 0
One year ago, Soyoung Lee was a crowd of climate activists demonstrating on Seoul’s streets in a campaign sparked by the founder of the global school strike Greta Thunberg. Today, she is the youngest member of the South Korean parliament and a trigger in the government’s new green deal, endeavoring to create billions of available jobs in renewable energy sources and help the infected economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Lee’s transformation highlights the rapid progress the global wave of youth climate activism has executed in a significantly short time. There is public hope that South Korea will set a global exemplar by stimulating the shift from fossil fuels – despite it being a country long considered one of the “world’s worst climate villains.” Lee debates that South Korea will have more stranded assets the longer it delays transition away from fossil fuel usage. “It makes economic sense to change. These kinds of businesses will not be viable in the future.” The new green deal will dominate new session discussions in the national assembly – another indication that displays the progress where climate, in the context of government consideration, has moved up the political agenda. In raising awareness about this issue, Lee specifically credits the school strike movement. She has dauntly campaigned for decarbonization for many years already and has worked as a young and successful lawyer on climate litigation suits. However, she adds that there was only little public support until recently. She makes a clear estimation that only 10 among the 300 legislators are gravely committed to environmental issues regarding climate change. “It is definitely still not mainstream,” she comments. “But the green new deal is now at the center of political discussion for the first time. We need to see whether this means a sudden revolutionary change or the start of something incremental."

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7 Comments

Asmita Gaire says :
Greetings Yvonne
I hope you are doing well
Thank you so much for this report
Green cheers
Regards
Asmita Gaire
Posted 18-09-2020 12:33

Sang Su Mentor says :
Hi Yvonne An, this is a mentor, Sang Su Lee.

Thanks to many people that are continuously worrying about the earth environment, I believe that the earth can be sustained at least!!

Green cheers!~
Posted 31-08-2020 03:34

Bal krishna Pandey says :
Hello Ivonne,
Thank you very much for your report . Its very interesting to see such a movement there.
Green cheers
Posted 18-08-2020 15:21

Kushal Naharki

Kushal Naharki says :
Hello Yvonne

Greetings and Namaste from Nepal
Wishing you a safe stay
Thank you for your report sharing the activities of Soyoung Lee. It was an interesting report.

Keep writing great reports.
We are eager to read more reports from you.
Green Cheers :)

Best wishes,
Kushal Naharki

Posted 17-08-2020 20:11

Taehyun Mentor says :
Hello Yvonne An this is mentor Taehyun!

Thank you for introducing me to people who are working hard for the environment. There are so many different people around us, and there are people like you who are not interested in the environment, who are not aware of what is harmful to the environment, and there are people like you who are very interested in the environment. Isn't it our job to get people who aren't interested in the environment interested?

Thank you for the report!

Green cheers!
Posted 17-08-2020 16:39

Kevin Lopez says :

Hi Ivonne,
Very interesting. Young people have many fresh ideas and enough will to be able to promote small and large changes in the world. Our generation and those to come, hardest hit by climate change, we must have on our main agenda promoting initiatives that reduce this impact. In this way we will leave a safe and healthy planet for future young people.
Greetings from Peru.
Posted 16-08-2020 06:41