National Strategy for Sustainable Development 2011-2015.

This National Strategy for Sustainable Development (NSSD) 2011-2015 is a policy document with a cross-sectoral approach. Main Objectives include: Equity - All people who live in the same period have a right to have the equal distribution and the quality of life; Balance between development and conservation - Balance between economic development and environmental conservation should be considered; Ecological equity - In the process of securing inter-generational equity, the harmony between nature and human race and improvement in quality of life needs to be considered first.
The NSSD seeks to establish national system for food security through climate-friendly technologies in food production. The target is that food self-sufficiency will be 57% by 2015. The tasks include: Impact assessment and prediction on food production from climate change; Raise climate-friendly basis of food production; Establish information system on major grain consumption and production; Expand international cooperation on resilient food supply.
The NSSD promotes to enhance sustainability of environment and natural resources through: Establishing an efficient management system for integrated management of environment and natural resources; Increasing the productivity and health of urban area, forest and coastal marine ecosystems; Disseminating the cultural practice of green life through continuous education and public relations. Strategies include: Land and urban planning for effective land conservation and development; Adoption of advanced water management for future water resources capacity building; Reinforcement of soil contamination management systems for a healthy soil environment; Creation of green Korea that links ecosystem of mountains, swamp, tidal, and coastal marine; Building a sustainable fishery systems; Design basis for sustainable wetland management; Secure biodiversity.
The NSSD promotes social equity and public health through: Improving the quality of life for vulnerable groups; Public health protection against environmental challenges. Strategies are: Promoting economic activity and improving living conditions of the disadvantaged communities; Improving rural incomes and living conditions; Strengthening Environmental disease prevention and control; Organizing and expanding public health care system. The tasks include: Strengthen financial support for the disadvantaged communities; Expand the employment of the disadvantaged communities; Build a community-based rural development by: Stabilizing management and income of farmers; Expanding basis on rural health and medicine; Expansion of basic rural infrastructure; Preparing basis of rural area development; Strengthening risk management of agricultural sector; etc.
The NSSD supports the construction of effective natural disaster prevention and response system by building national disaster response system, improving disaster recovery system to prevent repeated damage and prevention of climate change caused disasters. The NSSD further promotes the adaptation to climate change and response mechanisms. The main strategic directions are: Promoting low carbon society by reducing greenhouse gas emissions; Strengthening climate change adaptation ability through developing climate change scenarios to empower response to unusual weather phenomena; Achieving competitiveness and market advantage through training in climate industry. The Strategies include: Strengthen capacity for responding to climate change through facilitating sectoral greenhouse gas emissions reduction and expansion of monitoring network for climate change; Expanding the carbon absorption capacity of forests and agricultural fields; etc.