[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The National Climate and Environmental Council under direct control of the President has been launched to deal with fine dust.

The Council will take the role of proposing fundamental solutions to the government by reviewing fine dust issues that are reaching social disaster levels from the public's perspective.

It will also actively seek ways to cooperate with countries in Northeast Asia that are suffering from fine dust issues.

Ban Ki-moon, the 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations, will head the National Climate and Environment Council, and 42 members representing political parties, industry, academia, civil society, religion, government and local government will participate in the Council.

In particular, seven citizens representing various classes, including elementary school principals, small business owners, regular outdoor workers and rural village representatives, will also be included in the Council to reflect the voices of citizens suffering from fine dust and to identify measures to reduce them in real life.

The National Climate and Environmental Council plans to first come up with measures to effectively respond to high levels of fine dust and quickly implement them in the period of high concentrations of fine dust (December to early May), and will also discuss mid- and long-term measures to resolve fundamental fine dust problems in stages.

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