• Start year: 2012
• Type: Education/Awareness Raising
• Status: In operation

In Dobong-gu, the 650-member Green Start citizen network
plays an essential role in reinforcing climate-change
capacities and preliminary compliance with low-carbon
city/sustainable green growth guidelines. It has trained
77 green leaders who are the core human resource of the
Green Start movement and who create awareness about
green lifestyles, alongside 20 green leaders who mastered
its professional education course and perform consultation
services related to greenhouse gas emissions such as
standby power diagnosis.

• Start year: 2011
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

Dobong-gu activates urban agriculture by identifying undeveloped
lands to expand direct carbon-offset areas and
reduce the secondary greenhouse-gas emission rate created
indirectly in the transportation of agricultural products. In
2012 the City created vegetable gardens in public lands and
four private parcels and has also created vegetable gardens
on 23 public building rooftops. Heat island creation is also
abated with the provision of 1500 box garden sets that allow
any citizen to raise vegetables at home

• Start year: 2009
• Type: Education/Awareness Raising
• Status: In operation

Since 2009, the city has operated Eco-Mileage, a program
in which families and organizations undertake efforts to
voluntarily reduce electricity, water and gas consumption.
The local government provides energy-saving resources
and reforestation subsidies as incentives to participants
that reduce energy consumption. 28,000 people (21% of
the city’s population) have joined. Due to the eco-mileage
program, 2012’s greenhouse-gas reduction rate is expected
to be about 4000t; Dobong-gu plans to reduce greenhouse
gases by 10,000t by 2014.

• Start year: 2012
• Type: Regulatory
• Status: In operation

Basic ordinances for low-carbon green growth have been
enacted in Dobong-gu to expand development of climatechange
actions policies, improve citizen quality of life and
create pleasant urban environments. Ordinances call for
green growth through the adoption of green habits in private
and business life, organizing and operating green-growth
committees for deliberation and consultation on major actions,
establishing green economy and greenhouse-gas reduction
goals, and providing executive and financial support
to climate-change adaptation and sustainable development
industries.