Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Britain has made big promises about decarbonizing its economy, reaching net zero by 2050.

It's well ahead of many other countries on getting there, but that is largely down to a historical quirk.

We look at what lies ahead for the country to finish the job.

And with so much homework these days, noisy neighbors are an even greater nuisance than they were before.

But in South Korea, complaints about them are a national obsession.

There's even a government agency dedicated to handling them.

First up, though.

Today, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee, or IOC, will meet remotely to discuss the future of the Summer Olympics.

The Tokyo Games are scheduled to begin on July 23, having been delayed by a year because of the Summer Olympics. The Tokyo Games are scheduled to begin on July 23rd, having

been delayed by a year because of the pandemic. Officially, the festivities start even earlier

with the traditional torch relay next month. But if most Japanese people had their way, the torch

wouldn't be lit at all. With COVID-19 still rampant, polls show the majority of the population

would prefer to delay or cancel the games altogether.

Some have even staged protests.

And if that wasn't enough, the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee has had its own internal drama to contend with.

While leading an Olympic committee board meeting earlier this month, the former Japanese prime minister had said that women talk too much.

That's raised fresh questions about the leadership tasked with staging what has become both

a politically sensitive and potentially perilous event.

The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee faced a big scandal this month.

In fact, the president, Mori Yoshiro, was forced to resign.

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