Seogwipo City is recruiting 1,176 participants for the Car Carbon Neutral Point System, a transportation sector greenhouse gas reduction program, from March 4th to March 14th on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Car Carbon Neutral Point System provides annual incentives based on driving distance reduction performance for non-commercial passenger cars and vans with 12 seats or less using gasoline, diesel, and LPG fuel. Vehicles owned by corporations or organizations, commercial vehicles, and eco-friendly vehicles (electric, hybrid, hydrogen) are excluded.

Those wishing to participate can apply by accessing the Car Carbon Neutral Point System website (https://car.cpoint.or.kr) during the recruitment period.

Only one vehicle per person under the car owner's name can participate, and applications must be made with a mobile phone under the applicant's name following the real-time vehicle owner verification process.

After signing up, vehicle license plate and dashboard photos must be submitted within the deadline through a text message sent by the Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute. For vehicles that participated last year, automatic re-application is not provided, so re-application is necessary.

After final participation approval, incentives are scheduled to be paid in December by calculating the driving distance reduction rate (%) and reduction distance (km) performance for the 6-month participation period.

Incentives range from a minimum of 20,000 won to a maximum of 100,000 won, depending on the reduction performance, by comparing the standard driving distance according to the cumulative daily average driving distance before participating in the system with the confirmed driving distance.

Last year, 1,175 people participated, and 706 people reduced their driving distance, receiving 49.14 million won in incentives.

Seogwipo City announced that it achieved the effect of planting about 2,000 pine trees by reducing 290 tons of greenhouse gases.

For more details, check the Car Carbon Neutral Point System website, or you can get guidance from the Carbon Neutral Point Call Center (1660-2030) and the Seogwipo City Climate Environment Department (064-760-2892).

Jin Eun-sook, head of the Climate Environment Department, said, "Please note that automatic re-application is not provided even for previous participants, and we ask for active participation in the Car Carbon Neutral Point System, which allows you to receive incentives along with practicing carbon neutrality."

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