Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/17
By: S.P. Yeh and Lillian Lin

Taipei, July 17 (CNA) Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairwoman and presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen said Friday she will consider making the agreement on carbon emissions reduction to be adopted at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference a policy.

Together with Lee Yuan-tseh, the former president of Academia Sinica, Tsai held a dialogue with students at the Global Initiatives Symposium in Taiwan.

Lee raised the issue of climate change and the pledge of many countries to sign an agreement to reduce carbon emissions at the Paris summit scheduled for Nov. 30 to Dec. 12.     [FULL  STORY]