South Korean President Park Geun-hye will attend the climate summit at U.N. headquarters in New York later this month, her office said Thursday, as Seoul seeks to bridge differences between advanced and developing countries in combating climate change.
South Korea has made a voluntary commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent from business-as-usual levels by 2020. Seoul made the pledge in 2009, despite not being subject to a mandatory reduction requirement under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, an international deal aimed at fighting global warming.