“South Korea is one of the major countries that can say, ‘Look, together with America we are doing this’ so Biden doesn’t stand on the podium alone,” said Chung Min Lee, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The United States under Mr. Biden has pledged to cut emissions 50 percent to 52 percent from 2005 levels by the end of this decade, with a goal of achieving carbon neutrality by midcentury. That’s where most nations need to be in order to hold global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and avoid the worst impacts of warming, scientists say.
South Korea has made the environment a central pillar in its economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, starting a multibillion dollar program to invest in electric vehicles, battery storage, smart grids and offshore wind farms. The country also has pledged to get to net-zero emissions by 2050 and, at an international climate change summit that Mr. Biden hosted last month, promised to end funding of overseas coal plants.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/climate/south-korea-climate-change-biden.html
