「온실가스 배출권의 할당 및 거래에 관한 법률」제정 논의에 있어서의 문제점 검토

Review of the Existing Bill on 「How to Issue and Trade Emission Allowances of Greenhouse Gas」Korea has already enacted “ Green Growth Act” and then set the goal of reducing 30 percent of Greenhouse Gas BAU by 2020. Under the Act, emissions trading program of Greenhouse gas is planned to be adopted from 2015. When emissions trading system is decided to adopt in Korea, the most important issue is “how to allocate initial emissions allowances.” Is “free allocation” during fixed dates inevitable? if a mechanism to protect international competitiveness of Korea’s industry was pursued at the same time, there could be no use of free allocations. In this aspect, the government’s decision to allocate 95 percent of whole allowances free for 6 years from 2015 should be reconsidered. Even though free allocations are argued to be required temporally, the existing bill is highly on the equity issues of emissions allocations. After all, the emissions trading program under the existing bill could not be expected to be successful. Nevertheless, the government of Korea was satisfied to show its intention to introduce the emissions trading program regardless of whether the decision to adopt the program was made from the executive intentions or the results of working –level consideration.