Korea, Canada sign MOU on climate change cooperation
Kim Hyo-eun, right, Korea's ambassador and deputy minister for climate change, poses with Canadian Ambassador for Climate Change Catherine Stewart on the margins of the 2023 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Dubai, Dec. 3. Courtesy of Seoul's foreign ministry
Korea and Canada have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on climate change cooperation as a follow-up step to the May summit of the two countries' leaders, Seoul's foreign ministry said Monday.
The MOU was signed by Kim Hyo-eun, Korea's ambassador for climate change, and her Canadian counterpart, Catherine Stewart, on Sunday (local time), on the sidelines of the 2023 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Dubai, the ministry said.
The MOU calls for bolstering cooperation in exchanges of climate change-related information and technologies, and promoting exchanges in academia and relevant research projects, among others.
Under the MOU, the two countries will also seek to hold an annual climate change dialogue led by the climate envoys.
In May, President Yoon Suk Yeol and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held a summit and agreed to boost cooperation to tackle three environmental crises — climate change, pollution and loss of biodiversity. (Yonhap)