No country should be excluded from global climate talks

Taiwan News 
Date: 2017/11/19
By: Teng Pei-ju, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Minister of Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration

Lee Ying-yuan (李應元) urged countries to support Taiwan’s participation in the United Nations climate summit in an interview with TV Berlin on Saturday.

Earlier on November 13, the Central News Agency reported that Lee, as a Taiwanese envoy, was refused entry to the side events held around the 23th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP23) in Bonn, Germany due to Chinese pressure.

Lee said even though Taiwan is not a signatory state in the United Nations, the country has been committed to energy transformations and is willing to share its experience in tackling problems resulted from climate change.    [FULL  STORY