A 'Green' Blessing Raises Questions

摘要

South Korea's controversial plan to transform the ecology of four rivers has become an improbable poster child of the Green New Deal movement.rnIn October 2008, the United Nations Environment Programme launched an initiative to encourage governments then planning recession-fighting stimulus packages to support environmentally friendly projects and forge what UNEP called a "Global Green New Deal." Three months later, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak announced a Green New Deal under which about 80% of a $38.1 billion stimulus package would go to eco-friendly projects. South Korea "grasped the nettle early on," UNEP spokesperson Nick Nuttall wrote in an e-mail to Science.