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2017 Tainan Responding to Climate Change Project

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1. Greenhouse-gas reduction related work (1) Results of Greenhouse Gases Inventory The results of 2016 of administrative area display GHGs total emissions is 20.90 million tons CO2e, in which industrial sector(inclutive energy of industry and industrial processes) contributes 65%, energy of transportation contributes 16%, household energy contributes 16%, waste sector contributes 2% and agricultural sector contributes 1%. (2) Proposing Periodic Regulatory Goals of Tainan city According to “First Phase Regulations for Periodic Regulatory Goals (draft)” ,which was published by EPA in November, the first phase national GHG emission reduction goal shall be to reduce GHG emissions to no more than 2% of 2005 GHG emission by 2020. Following the national GHG emission reduction goal, the first phase periodic regulatory goals of Tainan city were as following: energy sector 10.41 MtCO2e、manufacture sector 1.01 MtCO2e、transportation sector 2.59 MtCO2e、household sector 2.66 MtCO2e、agriculture sector 0.13 MtCO2e、environment sector 0.36 MtCO2e. (3) Proposing GHG control implementation plans According to article 15 of Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Management Act, we proposed GHG control implementation plans. In this year, the 2017 Tainan GHG control implementation plans included 34 measures and 122 specific actions. To the end of November, the total amounts of carbon reduction was expected to be up to 1.23 Mton CO2e, and the amounts of carbon fixation was expected to be up to 3,503 ton C in 2017. 2. Accomplishing GHGs Emissions Audit (1) Enforcing GHG Accounting and Registration According to “GHG Accounting and Registration Regulations”, The designated emission sources shall conduct GHG accounting and registration, and submit GHG inventories and GHG reports, verification reports and verification statement to the designated registry by the designated deadline. In this year, there were 34 designated emission sources in Tainan. And they had to finished accounting and registration before August 31. To the end of November, all designated emission sources had done. (2) Counseling non-vessel factories for greenhouse gas inventory In this year, we counsel two non-vessel factories, HannsTouch Solution Incorporated and TYC Brother Industrial Co., Ltd. The inventory result of HannsTouch Solution Incorporated was 70,710.949 tonCO2e. And The inventory result of TYC Brother Industrial Co., Ltd was 1,433.697 tonCO2e. 3. Administrative cooperation matters (1) Handle large-scale publicity activities in response to environmental festivals The project and EPB held a Mid-Autumn Festival with low carbon and environmental protection thinking. By helding a picnic fun at the Broadway Theater in Taiyuan, Tainan. More than 200 people bring their friends and family to join the festivities on September 23 and 24. (2) Proceed to Climate Change Tour Class To promote public understanding of climate change and energy sustainability, we plan to change the past top-down model of "citizen-participation workshop" by believing that "community residents are experts in the field" and that " Participatory Democracy "and" Deliberative Democracy, "and introduce a participatory" Citizen-saving and Green Power "citizen-participation workshop to facilitate the improvement of current energy saving through citizen participation in listening to public opinion and introducing civil society's ideas to the public sector And green issues have not been resolved public policy issues. (3) Awareness Survey on People's Low Carbon Policy To understand the public's policy and effectiveness of promoting low carbon in Tainan City. By using surveys conducted through questionnaires have not only provided the Environmental Protection Bureau as a reference for governance, but also can be used as a basis for assessing the effectiveness of low-carbon work carried out by low-carbon offices. The topic design focuses on the implementation of low-carbon policies in local municipalities and refers to the "Tainan City Air Quality Assessment and Management Program". Topics covered include issues relating to locomotive replacement, climate change, renewable energy and public transportation. And the valid questionnaire totally are 530. The top 3 policies wich citizen feel effective are recycle, two-stock motorcycle replacement and disabling styrofoam cup. The top 3 policies which citizen think government have to promote are carbon reduction of factories, disabling styrofoam cup and recycle. (4) Tainan City Government Delegation attends COP23 Hsien-Wei Lee, Deputy Secretary General of Tainan City Government, led a delegation to take part in the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP23) in Bonn, Germany. In addition to attending the climate summit, Deputy Secretary General (DSG) Lee visited Johann Saathoff, Member of the German Bundestag, and Jens Eckhoff, member of Bremen State Parliament, and talked about the role that central and local governments play in the process of energy transformation in Germany. The delegation was also invited to visit wpd, a renewable energy company in Bremen which is the largest development group invested in Taiwan’s renewable energy sector. (5) Holding a Low-Carbon City international conference The project and Tainan City Government hosted on Dec. 4 the 2017 Tainan-ECCT Low Carbon City & Circular Economy Conference with the theme of “urban recycling economy development,” “industry promotion of recycling economy,” and “development and innovation resource recycling technologies.” (6) Design and production of environmental education advocacy materials The tourism guideline will focus on the distinctive features of the community and take stock of the characteristics of low-carbon sustainable development. Combining with low-carbon life and tourism, the marketing of low-carbon Tainan is conducted with a list of information sources including: Liuying District, Guandu District and Xuejia District Jinhua community in South District, Tianpu Community in Yujing District, and Guanshan Community in Nanhua District. The interviewer(s) or chairman of the Community Development Association know more about the process of creating a low-carbon community and can learn about some of the local private attractions. (7) Published low carbon related news The project statistics until December 15 only, in line with the EPB policy advocacy submission of low carbon-related environmental news release, a total of 10.
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