녹색성장과 지방자치법제에 대한 공법적 고찰

Abstract

President Lee Myung-bak declared his “low-carbon, green growth” strategy to lead the nation's long-term advancement in August 2008. Since August 2008, it is clear that everybody has been surrounded by green growth idea through everyday TV commercial to government bulletin board. However, the concept of green growth is new to scholar. There were huge debate over the concept of green growth and whether green growth can replace sustainable development which have been used and developed among the nations. The success of “Green Growth” depends on the efforts to promote the concept and system change necessary for a mutually reinforcing integration and synergy of environmental and economic policies. Green Growth was introduce to international society by Korean government during the conference on environmental and development in Asia and the Pacific 2005. Green growth has started on limited regional base but it has its roots on environmental crisis and international concern on global worming. The concept of green growth must include the other related notion such as ESSD. However the low-carbon green growth Act have not embrace the idea of social justice and balanced development between local governments. It is time to reconcile the decentralization which promote the balanced development within Korea and the green growth which have to hormonize environment sustainability, economic grow and social equity. Korean government should consider unbalanced developments between local and the capital area when she designed the emissions trading system. Local governments are in several distinct positions such as polluter, policy maker, policy keeper and local governments are in the front line of impact of climate change. Emphasis has remained on cooperation by providing new energy infrastructure and enabling public-private partnerships to emerge that provide services that help reduce green house gas. This is not likely to change without local government adopting control and compliance measures addressing climate change. To accomplish these green growth, balanced development and social justice, there must be redistribution government power between central government and local government from making rules and regulation to imposing taxes as well as reform of national and local tax system.