This project was initiated on March 5, 2013. Its working plans include organizing the meetings of operation groups, the production of low-carbon community development strategy reports, formulating low-carbon community selection criteria, assisting communities in passing low-carbon community certification, holding low-carbon community policy briefings, subsidizing communities to execute carbon reduction, organizing sustainable-home seminars, organizing cross-departmental coordination meetings to monitor the progress of low-carbon-related jobs, holding a cross-city/county observation program, compiling Yunlin County Low Carbon Home Policy Blueprint, etc. The results of each focal point for project implementation during the final are mainly as follows: (1) Invite experts to organize meetings of operation groups, in order to acquire more professional advice and technical support. In the meetings, the County’s future sustainable low-carbon directions and policies were discussed; (2) Conduct an activity to select low-carbon communities in Yunlin County in the hope that community residents’ response and participation can enable the low carbon and sustainability concepts to be rooted in their awareness; (3) Compile the low-carbon community development strategy report in reference to both the County’s current situation and the low carbon information from domestic and international sources, and take it as a reference for promoting the County’s low-carbon community policies in the future; (4) To conduct the low-carbon community selection activity, the project not only formulated selection criteria, but also held low-carbon community policy briefings to encourage the communities present to participate in the selection. The final top five low-carbon communities were selected and subsidized for low carbon reduction effort in the communities. It was hoped that through the small amounts of subsidies, low-carbon community promotion as well as community cohesion could be facilitated; (5) To help community residents better understand the concepts regarding low-carbon sustainable homes, seminars were included in this project. By sharing and exchanging experiences of developing low-carbon communities, it was proven that community residents could easily understand relevant concepts and put them into practice; (6) The low-carbon community policy is supposed to be implemented with a think tank, so cross-departmental meetings were held to promote the progress and coordination of related jobs, to acquire professional consultation and technical support, as well as to request each department involved to provide their low-carbon sustainability plans that would constitute a basis for the County’s future execution of low-carbon sustainability policies; (7) The project will organize a cross-city/county observation program and in consideration of the characteristics and elements of a low-carbon city, Yilan County will be chosen for the program. It is expected that through the observation program, we can be equipped with related knowledge and employ it for the implementation of low-carbon City policies in the future; (8) Take domestic and international low-carbon cities as the subjects for case study, collect and analyze relevant data of greenhouse gases, plan low-carbon sustainable home strategies, and complete the Yunlin County Low Carbon Home Policy Blueprint, so that these may provide the County with references to promote low-carbon sustainable home policies; and (9) Submit the monthly report and put the plans for control in accordance with predetermined schedules.

Low-Carbon Sustainable Project Office in Yunlin County