LEGISLATION: The nation needs a climate change act to integrate climate action across different sectors, as its greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, the paper said
Taipei Times
Date: Jun 07, 2019
By: Lin Chia-nan / Staff Reporter
Academia Sinica yesterday released a white paper urging authorities to adopt more drastic
Director of Academia Sinica’s Research Center for Environmental Changes Wang Pao-kuan holds a copy of the Taiwan Deep Decarbonization Policy White Paper at a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Chien Hui-ju, Taipei Times
plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions and draft climate change legislation.
The drafting of the white paper, “Taiwan Deep Decarbonization Policy,” started in 2015 and took more than three years to finish, as it involves many fields, including energy-related techniques, economic development and social communication, said Wang Pao-kuan (王寶貫), director of Academia Sinica’s Research Center for Environmental Changes and lead author of the report.
Taiwan’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2015 reached 284.643 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, up from 137.854 million tonnes in 1990, the paper says.
In 2015, carbon dioxide made up about 95.21 percent of the nation’s total greenhouse gas emissions, followed by methane (1.91 percent), nitrous oxide (1.58 percent) and hydrofluorocarbons (1.3 percent), it says. [FULL STORY]
