A Greenpeace opinion poll showed that most people in Taiwan opined that presidential candidates should face up to the crisis brought by climate change by putting forth energy policies
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/10/13
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Environmental group Greenpeace has urged Taiwan’s 2020 presidential candidates to put forth policies in response to the issue of climate change as Taiwan is listed in the top 25 countries in the world with highest per capita carbon dioxide emissions in 2018, according to a United Daily News (UDN) report on Sunday (Oct. 13).
The school strike launched by Swedish girl Greta Thunberg (桑柏格) attracted 6 million people around the world to take to the street to call public attention to the climate change issue. In Taiwan, instead of organizing street protests, Greenpeace and other groups such as Taiwan Youth Climate Coalition (TWYCC) have called on all 2020 presidential candidates to directly respond to the issue, the UDN reported.
A Greenpeace opinion poll showed that most people in Taiwan opined that presidential candidates should face up to the crisis brought by climate change by putting forth energy policies that can respond to the trend of converting to recyclable energies, including solar energy, wind power, terrestrial heat, tidal energy, and biomass energy, according to the UDN report.
Greenpeace energy project director Tsai Tu-wei (蔡篤慰) said that according to the data of the Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research, Taiwan’s per capita carbon dioxide emission was 12.01 metric tons in 2018, which ranked 25th in the world and much higher than the global average, surpassing Singapore, Germany, and China, according to the report. [FULL STORY]