{"id":24238,"date":"2020-10-28T15:50:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T06:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/28\/south-korea-vows-to-go-carbon-neutral-by-2050-to-fight-climate-emergency"},"modified":"2020-10-28T15:50:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T06:50:42","slug":"south-korea-vows-to-go-carbon-neutral-by-2050-to-fight-climate-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24238","title":{"rendered":"South Korea vows to go carbon neutral by 2050 to fight climate emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea relies on coal for about 40% of its electricity generation, with renewables making up less than 6%<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s president, Moon Jae-in, has declared that the country will go carbon neutral by 2050, bringing it into line with other major economies.<\/p>\n<p>In a policy speech in the national assembly on Wednesday, Moon said South Korea, one of the world\u2019s most fossil fuel-reliant economies, would \u201cactively respond\u201d to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-change\">climate emergency<\/a> \u201cwith the international community and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/28\/south-korea-vows-to-go-carbon-neutral-by-2050-to-fight-climate-emergency\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea relies on coal for about 40% of its electricity generation, with renewables making up less than 6%South Korea\u2019s president, Moon Jae-in, has declared that the country will go carbon neutral by 2050, bringing it into line with other major eco&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,326,65,564,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24239,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24238\/revisions\/24239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}