• 한국기후변화학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.343-355
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• 2018

A new climate regime was intensively negotiated from 2011 to 2015, culminating in adoption of the Paris Agreement. The Agreement went into effect on 4th of November 2016. Follow-up negotiation to implement the Paris Agreement has continued since May 2016 and is expected to be finalized by 2018. This paper reviews and analyzes the process of establishment of the new climate regime based on the Paris Agreement, focusing on the main issues and the negotiating positions of major groups of developed and developing countries. This paper details various important issues determining the final outcome of the Paris Agreement and discusses the follow-up negotiation in the years 2016 and 2017. It concludes with discussion of the various implications of the Paris Agreement, which will determine important aspects of our future socioeconomic life well into the 21st century.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제69권4호
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• pp.361-369
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• 2019

The determination of Paris' law parameters based on crack growth experiments is an important procedure of fatigue life assessment. However, it is a challenging task because it involves various sources of uncertainty. This paper proposes a novel probabilistic method, termed the S-N Paris law (SNPL) method, to quantify the uncertainties underlying the Paris' law parameters, by finding the best estimates of their statistical parameters from the S-N curve data using a Bayesian approach. Through a series of steps, the SNPL method determines the statistical parameters (e.g., mean and standard deviation) of the Paris' law parameters that will maximize the likelihood of observing the given S-N data. Because the SNPL method is based on a Bayesian approach, the prior statistical parameters can be updated when additional S-N test data are available. Thus, information on the Paris' law parameters can be obtained with greater reliability. The proposed method is tested by applying it to S-N curves of 40H steel and 20G steel, and the corresponding analysis results are in good agreement with the experimental observations.

• 환경정책연구
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.119-136
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• 2015

유엔기후변화협약 협상에서 재정 분야는 개도국 지원의 장단기 목표를 수립하고, GCF를 설립하였으며, 상설위원회를 구성하는 등 큰 성과를 나타냈다. 이로서 협약 재정메커니즘의 실질적인 작동을 위한 체제는 갖춰진 것으로 볼 수 있다. 신기후체제 협상에서는 선진국의 역사적 책임을 강조하는 개도국과 변화된 상황에 부합하는 개도국의 행동을 주장하는 선진국의 상반된 입장이 어떻게 절충될 것인지가 핵심 쟁점이다. 특히 합의 도출에 있어 이행수단으로써 기후재원의 역할에 대한 기대가 고조되고 있다. 본고에서는 협약 채택 이후 지난 리마 당사국총회(COP20)까지 재정지원 관련 논의동향을 정리하고 신기후체제 합의를 앞두고 기후재원 분야의 주요 쟁점과 과제를 제시한다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.1038-1045
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• 2017

To address mounting concerns over global warming, the Paris Agreement was reached in December 2015, which aims to limit the increase in global average temperature. South Korea has set a highly ambitious target to reduce emissions and submitted an Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC). Based on the INDC, we investigated the impact of limiting carbon emissions on the power system and the electricity market in Korea. Through detailed simulations on assumed plausible scenarios, this work highlights a) the effects of different carbon emission targets on the annual carbon emission volumes, generation costs, and carbon price; b) the generation mix changes induced by carbon emission limits; and c) the difference in system marginal price and payments for generator owners that carbon emission constraint creates in electricity markets under three different pricing rules.

• 한국기후변화학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.357-368
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• 2018

The Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015, requires global mitigation actions by all countries, whether they are developed or developing countries. All member countries prepared and communicated a greenhouse gas reduction target, formally called the Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC). There has been some concern regarding whether the INDCs communicated are sufficient to achieve the emissions reduction needed to hold the increase in global temperature to $2^{\circ}C$ above pre-industrial levels. How to address this emissions gap in an equitable and fair manner remains controversial. Beginning in the year 2023, global stocktaking under the Paris Agreement will be performed by the Conference of the Parties to assess progress towards temperature goals. The present study, based on various composite indicators reflecting equity, fairness, ability and efficiency, analyzed the GHG reduction targets of eleven major countries and the ambitiousness of these targets. Employing share indicators and comparative ratio indicators (resulting in eight composite indicators), this study showed that when share indicators are applied, Korea's appropriate reduction requirement rate is relatively low at 1~2%. However, when comparative ratio indicators are applied, Korea's appropriate reduction requirement rate increases dramatically to 6~11%. In a similar vein, when share indicators are applied, Korea's 2030 target is very ambitious compared to other countries, while the opposite is seen with comparative ratio indicators. This strongly suggests that Korea needs to apply more share indicators than comparative ratio indicators when discussing the equitable and ambitious role of Korea in the climate debate.

• 건설관리
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.61-63
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• 2017

• 해양환경안전학회:학술대회논문집
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• 해양환경안전학회 2017년도 공동학술발표회
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• pp.212-212
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• 2017

• 한국태양광발전학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.56-68
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• 2020

Cameroon is a lower middle-income country with a population of 25.87 million inhabitants distributed over a surface area of 475,442 ㎢. Cameroon has very rich potentials in renewable energy resources such as solar energy, wind energy, small hydropower, geothermal energy and biomass. However, renewable energy constitutes less than 0.1% of energy mix of the country. The energy generation mix of Cameroon is dominated by large hydropower and thermal power. Cameroon ratified the Paris Agreement in July 2016 with an ambitious 20% greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction. This study attempts to investigate some renewable energy deployment policy-instruments that could enable the country enhance renewable energy deployment, gain energy independence, fulfill Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and achieve Sustainable Development Goals. It begins with an analysis of the status of energy sector in Cameroon. It further highlights the importance of renewable energy in mitigating climate change by decarbonizing the energy mix of the country to fulfill NDC and SDGs. Moreover, this study proposes some renewable energy deployment policy-solutions to the government. Solar energy is the most feasible renewable energy source in Cameroon. Feed-in Tariffs (FiT), is the best renewable energy support policy for Cameroon. Finally, this study concludes with some recommendations such as the necessity of building an Energy Storage System as well a renewable energy information and statistics infrastructure.

• 한국태양광발전학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.21-34
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• 2020

Sri Lanka has strongly understood the importance of mitigation of climate change and various measures have been taken. To tackle the climate change, after ratifying Paris Agreement, Sri Lanka has pledged to reduce her greenhouse gas emission in the energy sector by 20% (16% unconditional and 4% conditional) by 2030 based on the BAU scenario. Simultaneously, the government introduced its new energy policy and strategies in 2019 with a vision of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. This paper survey related key government documents, policies, reports, and academic articles to investigate opportunities for the private sector to invest large scale solar power deployment (10 MW or above) and to get support from climate finance under article 6 of the Paris Agreement. It has found, growing concern on the environment, energy security issues and increase import expenses for fossil fuels are the main influencing factors to move renewable sources. Further, government investment and FDI both have gradually decreased in the energy sector. Therefore, an alternative financing mechanism is needed. Although the private sector allowed investing in the energy sector since 1996 with the introduction of IPP (Independent Power Producers), it could not make considerable progress on involving large scale solar utility projects. This has revealed government policy is not aligning with the long term generation plan of the electricity sector. The study has also found, it needs more strategic road map, coordination with different institutions, monitoring system to enhance large scale solar contribution.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.319-357
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• 2017

2020년 이후 국제사회의 기후변화 대응을 규정하는 파리협정의 핵심은 각 국가가 제출한 INDC이다. 본 연구는 주요 선진 개도국(EU, 미국, 일본, 중국, 인도)과 우리나라의 INDC를 개관하고, 각국의 감축공약 설정에 영향을 주고 있는 해당 국가의 산업구조 현황, 연료별 발전 현황, 부문별 온실가스 배출현황을 중심으로 각 국가여건을 분석한다. 그리고 이를 바탕으로 향후 기후변화 협상에서 우리나라의 대응 전략을 다음과 같이 제시한다. 첫째, 우리나라는 선진국의 INDC 관련 정보 목록의 확대 요구에 보조를 맞추며, 둘째, 국제사회의 동의를 얻어낼 수 있는 우리나라에 유리한 특수한 차별화 요소를 발굴하고, 셋째, INDC의 주기적 갱신에 대비한 범정부적 기구를 만들어야 한다.