- Changwon is a city of environmental preservation for future generations.
- Today's earth witnesses its natural environment rapidly being destroyed due to environmentally-unfriendly reckless development, which threatens the future of mankind. Meanwhile, the world is sharing its focus on the environment because the right to the environment is regarded as the full right of a citizen as the demand for higher quality of life increases.
- Moreover, public amenities are serving its critical role in urban competitiveness. World-class cities are the ones that provide sustainable and environmentally-friendly public amenities.
- Therefore, an environmental capital is "a city that is environmentally sound and sustainable, a city that preserves the environment for future generations and an eco-city where people and nature live in harmony." It can be also defined as the most advanced and exemplary city in a country as far as the environment is concerned.
- It is a city in which not only the physical elements such as the urban hardware but also the environmentally friendliness or environmental sustainability including the related institutions, systems and citizens' way of living are maintained.
