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 2015. With the essence of competing-with-yourself, 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. So far, the performance of all participants has been gradually presented. In order to honor participants with their outstanding performance, EPA held an awards ceremony to reward their great effort, and also to encourage the knowledge exchange between communities, villages and cities. This project focuses on keeping the program smoothly operating by maintaining the function of all the relevant organization, reviewing the grants programs, oversight and evaluation the effectiveness of the implementation and holding training courses for the related employees. Moreover, this project surveys and recommends the relation policies and issues of Low-Carbon and Sustainable Homeland Program under the “Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Management Act” to propose the status of implementation and difficulties for GHG offset system, which includes developing the GHG emission estimation methods for the village area to understand villages’ energy resources consumption and its GHG emission status. Regarding the implementation status and difficulties of the GHG offset project, this project also suggests an incentive mechanism for enterprise to support communities for carbon reductions, which includes legislation amendments, building a small-scale fund-raising platform and importing the corporate governance evaluation. On the other hand, by studying the low-carbon society promotion plans in UK, Japan, Singapore and Korea, the project further reviews on the medium- and long-term promotion policy for Low-Carbon and Sustainable Homeland Program. Additionally, this project proposes a series of multiple action plans for participants to implement action plans in more efficient way and analyzes the outcome documents from participants to provide recommendation of ten professional benchmarking action plans. To continuously construct low carbon and sustainable homeland, the project analyses the effectiveness of 2016 implementation outcomes to amend future strategy direction.

Low-Carbon Measures, Sustainable Development, Certification and Evaluation