By Lisa Friedman
President Moon Jae-in (click here) speaks in a virtual meeting of the two-day Group of 20 summit which concluded Sunday. The G-20 leaders adopted a joint declaration calling for the affordable and equitable access of Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics for all people.
Washington - The United States (click here) is calling on South Korea to set more ambitious climate targets, an issue that will be a part of discussions when President Moon Jae-in meets with President Biden on Friday at the White House.
Last month John Kerry, Mr. Biden’s international climate envoy, traveled to South Korea and, according to officials in both countries, surprised members of Mr. Moon’s government by suggesting the country take “corresponding efforts” to the United States in reducing planet-warming emissions. That would nearly double South Korea’s current target of cutting carbon 24.4 percent below 2017 levels by the end of the decade.
South Korea, the world’s seventh-largest emitter of planet-warming carbon dioxide, is important to the Biden administration’s effort to show that other industrialized countries are acting vigorously against climate change....
