South Korea―the world’s seventh-largest source of planet-heating carbon dioxide―plans to be on course to become the first East Asian country to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. It would be the biggest emitter yet to endorse moving toward the kind of industrial planning and social safety net expansion rarely seen outside of wartime.
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