Korea is energy poor country importing more than 95% of its energy from abroad. Despite its lack of domestic energy resources, Korea ranked 8th biggest energy consumption country and 7th largest producer of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission in the world in 2016. As one of the world’s top 10 emitters, Korean government announced at the Paris climate conference that it would proactively take part in the international community’s effort to reduce GHG and pledged to reduce emission by 37% below “business-as-usual” level by 2030. This is an ambitious plan since fossil fuel still accounts for the largest portion of Korea’s energy portfolio.

Given the world's growing problems of air pollution and climate change, emission-free energy sources, such as nuclear power and renewable energy, will play increasingly vital roles. In order to combat climate change, it is critical that international community needs to work together. As such, GBI organizes serious of workshops to develop and discuss possible collaborative opportunities between the United States and Korea. GBI also publishes reports to encourage discussion further among experts and other interest individuals to address this serious global concern. One of GBI’s new task will be to host high level delegation from Korea to meet with their counterparts in Washington, DC area as well as technical experts from the US renewable and nuclear energy national laboratories around the country and vice versa.