Presidential Committee on “Green Growth” or Presidential Committee on “Negotiated Contracts”?

 

  There is an organization called the Presidential Committee on Green Growth (PCGG). It is a commission made after the inauguration of Lee Myung-Bak’s administration. It is also a place enthusiastic about keeping both “Green” and “Development”. But you might be surprised to see the budget plan of the Steering Committee of the National Assembly.

 

 There are some interesting statistics in the 2010 Status of the PCGG research (p.56 of the attached report). In total, 1.99 billion won of the entire research budget, 2 billion, was used. Surprisingly, everything turned out to be negotiated contracts excluding the competition and 64 billion won.

 

Status of the PCGG research

[2010 Status of the research]

(unit : 1000won)
	Subject	Budget	Used	Contract Period	Contract Form	Contract institution
1	Research on the evaluation and selection of EcoRich cities	50,000	50,000	’10.04.06 ～ ’11.01.05	Negotiation	The Korea Land & Housing Corporation
2	Research on the government functions and organizations in the era of bigger Korea and green development	30,000	30,000	’10.05.19 ～ ’10.08.18	Negotiation	SNU R&DB Foundation
3	The operation of Green Korean peninsula Forum	49,000	49,000	’10.06.03 ～ ’11.01.25	Negotiation	Korea Institute for National Unification
4	Project research on the conditions of Korean Peninsula’s Green development	50,000	49,500	’10.06.03 ～ ’10.10.25	Negotiation	Korea Environment Institute
5	Establishment of the direction and development strategies of Green technology R&D investment distribution	760,000	760,000	’10.06.03～’10.12.31	Negotiation	Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning
6	A comparative analysis of EU Climate Change Policies and Green Development Policies of Korea	10,000	10,000	’10.06.25 ～ ’10.09.27	Negotiation	Korea Legislation Research Institute
7	Research on the  prospect of the greenhouse gas exhaustion and establishment of Reduction Target system by sector	298,,000	297,000	’10.07.21～’11.5.31	Negotiation	Yonsei University Office of Research Affairs and University-Industry Foundation (UIF)
8	Study on the selection and preparation of subjects of a policy consideration in relation to greenhouse gas reduction policies	197,000	195,800	’10.07.22 ～ ’11.02.28	Negotiation	Korea Energy Economics Institute
9	Support in the establishment of execution plans by sector regarding adaption to the climate change	50,000	49,000	’10.09.13 ～ ’11.04.09	Negotiation	Korea Environment Institute

10	Development of urban agriculture through a comparative analysis on laws in urban agriculture	30,000	30,000	’10.10.1～’10.12.31	Negotiation	Daeryook Aju
11	Collaborative study on Green Banking  at an APEC level	90,000	90,000	’10.10.01 ～ ’10.12.15	Negotiation	Dankook Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation
12	A Study on the improvement of policies of energy demand administration	90,000	88,000	’10.10.06 ～ ’11.02.05	Negotiation	JJ-Industry Cooperation Foundation
13	Research on development strategies of Korean peninsula’s Green Growth	50,000	49,800	’10.10.15 ～ ’11.03.14	Negotiation	Korea Environment Institute
14	International case studies of small and medium sized companies in the Renewable Energy sector	38,000	37,347	’10.10.18 ～ ’11.01.17	Negotiation	Beacon Consulting
15	The direction and strategies of Green Development in developing countries - for the development of OECD Green Growth Strategies	50,000	49,800	’10.10.28 ～ ’11.2.28	Negotiation	Korea Environment Institute
16	Regulation reform for the green growth and climate change	20,000	20,000	’10.11.02 ～ ’10.12.01	Negotiation	Korea Legislation Research Institute
17	Analysis of the international, political, economic influence and implication of hosting COP	50,000	49,900	’10.12.17 ～ ’11.3.16	Negotiation	SNU R&DB Foundation
18	Research on the internationalization of National Green Technology Award	40,000	40,000	’10.12.06 ～ ’11.3.5	Negotiation	Technovalue
19	Plans on enhancing the competitiveness of human resource in small and medium sized green companies	28,000	27,100	’10.12.27 ～ ’11.6.24	Competition	Alpha Solution Consulting
20	Analysis of causes and improvement plans for the mismatching employment of small and medium sized green companies in local areas	20,000	20,000	’10.12.24 ～ ’11.3.23	Negotiation	Hoseo Institutions of Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
	Total	2,000,000	1,992,247

  

  

A 760 million won worth project, “Establishment of the direction and development strategies of Green technology R&D investment distribution”, has been made into a negotiated contract with Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning. (Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning has conducted research on the R&D of Green Technology. The research has been conducted with segmented themes such as 27 Important Green Technology, 4 Focus Areas (Energy, Preservation of Environment, High efficiency of energy, Greenization of Industrial Spaces) along with the “Analysis of the 2010 National R&D Project of Green Technology”

 

PCGG one again signs the negotiated contract with Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning for a same project in 2011.

 

  A 297 million won worth negotiated contract was made for the “Research on the prospect of the greenhouse gas exhaustion and establishment of reduction target system by sector”. This seems enough to call this committee the Presidential Committee on “Negotiated Contracts” instead of “Green Growth”. Who would believe that the contracts were fair when more than 90% is negotiated contracts?

 

  Fortunately, it dramatically decreased in 2011 and 2012. What happened in 2010?

 

  The negotiated contract is a system that needs to be avoided in order to prevent corruption. Due to this, every organization is trying to avoid negotiated contracts as much as possible. Although the achievement of the PCGG has to be discussed at a later date, such forms of contracts appear to be very inappropriate. More effort should be made not to repeat the past.

 

  You can find the entire data below.

 

1902047_정무위원회_예비심사검토보고서.hwp