The primary purpose of this project is to implement the national policy advocated by the Environmental Protection Administration of the Executive Yuan. It is expected to set up local policies on reduction of carbon emissions in Taoyuan County, Assessment, guidance, and promotion works were conducted in hopes of enhancing the performance on carbon emission reduction (CER) in Taoyuan. It is acknowledged that governmental departments need to cooperate with private sectors so that the concepts of energy saving and carbon reduction may be instilled into the governments, institutions, schools, communities, townships, corporations, as well as individuals. By means of various promotional tactics, the citizens in Taoyuan County are in a state of better understanding of the policy and have their environmental consciousness boosted further. Hopefully citizens can change their lifestyle progressively. The achievements of this project are as follows. The awareness and knowledge on energy conservation and carbon emission reduction (CER) among Taoyuan County residents have been improved greatly. A county-wise goal on CER has been set. Three workshops were held concerning the pedagogy for CER training courses. Five sets of teaching materials have been complied. As a result, four training workshops for incubation of seed teachers attracted the participation of 305 people. Qualified seed teachers were selected from those participants to complete 506 sessions of community promotional seminars. The project aims to assist twelve entities, including public and private schools, business premises, communities, and industries to evaluate possibilities to reduce their carbon emissions. These entities will also be good examples for demonstration. Two major events have been organized to promote the success of CER education and the outcomes from different business and industry. Activities involved in the events were held in a low carbon way to respond to the policy of the Environmental Protection Bureau in Taoyuan. To facilitate the County to be most easily accessed by the public, electronic media, printed materials, and broadcasting channels. were all invited to report the events. The information of the above activities was presented in various forms through the media, such as special features, news reports, TV commercials, or broadcasts. 10P format on the printed media were published for 15 times. The two activities shown on the electronic media have had 11 reruns. Besides of all the above activities, project team also provided necessary task force to cope with the assignments from the Environmental Protection Administration of the Executive Yuan to propel local governments into promoting the work of carbon emission reduction.

Seed Teachers、Training materials、Carbon reduction Education