Republic of Korea needs green finance to meet climate change commitments




Asia's Developing Future show

Summary: Citizens of the Republic of Korea know the country needs to change how it generates energy. They breathe in evidence of that need every day. Ultra-fine dust covers the whole country; more of it than in any other country in the OECD. As a recent working paper for the Asian Development Bank Institute points out, companies and private citizens have yet to fully endorse the idea of going green despite more than two decades of government efforts to address climate change. Read the transcript https://bit.ly/2MvORro Read the working paper https://bit.ly/2P8Zhzv About the authors Deokkyo Oh is a research fellow at the Korea Corporate Governance Service in Seoul. Sang-Hyup Kim is an adjunct professor at the Korea Institute for Advanced Science and Technology in Seoul. Know more about ADBI’s work https://bit.ly/2V1rgzl https://bit.ly/31r51WD