In order to promote the Low-Carbon and Sustainable Homeland Program, Environmental Protection Administration Executive Yuan, R.O.C (EPAT) had started implementing the “Low-Carbon and Sustainable Homeland Certification Pilot Project” since July 1st, 2014 and officially running the program since year 2015. With the competing-with-yourself spirit, this pilot project is implemented with both bottom-up and top-down mechanism, trying to engaging in all the communities, villages, districts and cities/counties. This project focuses on keeping the operation of the program smoothly by maintaining the function of all the relevant organizations, including local governments, academics and the related non-profit organizations, and strengthening the communication and the interaction among these organizations. In addition, the administrative affairs related to low carbon and sustainable certification have been completed, including holding the information meetings, verifying the registration document for the certification, examining local government level participants’ performance of the certification. Moreover, “2015 Selective Site Visits Guideline for Low-Carbon and Sustainable Homeland Certification” was established to make sure the performance of the certified participants by on-site checking with a certain selective checking ratio. On the other hand, the training courses for the related employees working in the local governments and the volunteers in the communities are developed and held for building the low-carbon and sustainable related capacity. The experts who have the experiences on community building are invited to give the lectures and two villages are selected for the field diagnosis of low carbon and sustainable related measures, helping these employees and volunteers to learn more about how to implement the action plans. Last but not least, the performances on low carbon and sustainable related action plans of each local government are also complied to analyze the achievement of the “Low Carbon and Sustainable Homeland Program.” And based on these analyses, the future steps are modified in order to keep operating this program.

Low-Carbon Measures, Sustainable Development, Certification and Evaluation