The implementation of this plan is to grasp the long-term change trend of air quality in Taipei City, through work effectiveness evaluation and technical support, and then to develop appropriate air pollution control measures；to integrate and handle various air quality prevention and control strategies to promote the work, strengthen and enhance the citizens' cooperation to improve the city's air quality concept. To assist in the revision of the "Taipei Air Pollution Control Plan" and the "Taipei Clean Air Action Plan 2.0" pollution reduction action. The implementation period of this plan is from February 6, 2020 to December 31, 2020.
According to the provisions of the contract, the results of the work progress will be summarized and submitted to the final report. The summary of the implementation results of the important work items is as follows:
1. Air Quality Index and Air Quality Trend
(1) Air Quality Index (AQI): The trend of the city's AQI shows that the number of days with poor air quality in the city from January to Novenber 2020 was 60 days (non-performing rate 3.6%). Among them, PM2.5 was bad for 1 days (0.1%), and ozone 8-hour was bad for 59 days (3.5%); statistics from 2014 to 2019 were improved from 10.9% to 4.3%; good proportion also From 33.9% to 63.2%, it shows that the air quality in Taipei is improving year by year.
(2) The average annual concentration of particulate matters (PM10) in recent years in the city has been decreasing year by year from the highest value of 47.9 μg/m3 in 2010, and the average value in 2018 has dropped to 32.5 μg/m3. The average annual concentration of particulate matters in the city shows a continuous improvement trend. The average concentration from January to Novenber 2019 was 24.3 μg/m3.
(3) Manual measurement of fine particulate (PM2.5) concentration: The long-term goal of Taipei City's fine particulate is to reach the recommended value of the World Health Organization (10 μg/m3) by 2030. Manual measurements by Shihlin and Wanhua in Taipei show that the city’s annual average concentration of fine suspended particulates has reached air quality standards for two consecutive years in 2018 and 2019, and the three-year continuous average has also been lower than the air quality standards. From January to November 2020, the city's average, manual measuring station 12.1 μg/m3, are better than the past.
(4) In the past five years, the city's air quality has improved by 13-37%: Analysis of the air quality data of Taipei City in the past five years shows that at the end of Novenber 2020, the air quality has improved year by year compared with 2014, in which the concentration of particulate matters from 34.3 μg/m3 to 24.4 μg/m3, the improvement rate is 28%; manual PM2.5 is reduced from 19.6 μg/m3 to 12.4 μg/m3, the improvement rate is 37%; sulfur dioxide is reduced from 2.7 ppb to 1.9 ppb, the improvement rate is 30 %; nitrogen dioxide decreased from 20.0 ppb to 15.6 ppb with an improvement rate of 22%. Ozone hour concentration decreased from 107.4 ppb to 93.6 ppb with an improvement rate of 13%.
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2. Assisting the DEP in promoting the Taipei Clean Air Action Plan
To enable citizens to enjoy healthy air, the city government team has worked tirelessly to achieve the World Health Organization’s recommended PM2.5 annual average of 10μg/m3 in 119 (2030). The DEP TAIPEI launched the "Clean Air Action Plan 2.0" in 108(2019) through the three aspects of "low pollution, green transportation, and regional joint defense". This project helped to summarize the results of the ten major action plans as follows:
(1)Introduced a high-polluting vehicle control platform, and inspected high-polluting vehicles with scientific and technological law enforcement. By September 109, the regular inspection rate of locomotives was increased by 79.8%, the highest in history. The first phase of the empty maintenance zone was established according to local conditions, starting from January 1, 110 Implement. (2)As of September 109, Taipei City has eliminated 1,796 large diesel vehicles from Phase 1 to Phase 3, and installed 352 sets of DPF filters (including 187 sets of environmentally friendly clean vehicles and 165 sets of other public service departments) (3)Statistics show that from 102 to September 109, about 196,000 two-stroke motorcycles have been eliminated, and about 40,000 remain in the city. (4)A total of 32 electric buses were on the road in September 109, and it is expected that the total number will be 48 before the end of the year. The goal is to fully electrify buses in 119. (5)In 108 years, the first stage of the 7 major business districts totaling 12,845 spaces (about 5.6% of the total parking spaces) has been completed. It is scheduled to complete 27% of the city’s roadside scooters parking space fees by the end of 111.(6)As of September 109, 556 stations for charging and replacing power stations have been completed, with a density of 2 stations per square kilometer. According to statistics, as of September 109, 965 official electric scooters have been purchased, and the goal for 119 is to fully electrify official vehicles.(7) The capital monitoring network of 1 administrative region and 1 station has been completed.(8) Announce the technical guidelines for oil fume and odor control equipment in the catering industry. By September 109, the average efficiency of oil fume prevention and control reached 84.2%. (9) Strict boiler sulfur oxide emission standards from 300ppm to 50ppm, and all heavy oil boilers have been eliminated. (10) Units 1 and 2 of Xiehe Power Plant were decommissioned at the end of 108, and Units 3 and 4 should be decommissioned in 113 as scheduled.
3. Promote the control measures of mobile pollution sources in Taipei's air quality maintenance zone
This plan has assisted the Environmental Protection Agency in developing air quality maintenance areas to implement mobile pollution source control measures this year. The first draft of the plan was submitted on March 31, 109. Handling consultations and public hearings: a consultation meeting with experts and scholars was held on May 20, 109, consultations were held with the management unit of the target business authority on May 28, 109, and a meeting was held with the objects affected by the control measures on July 22, 109. Negotiation and communication.
The first phase of the air quality maintenance zone and control regulations were announced by the North City Government. The notice date is July 9, 109. The public can submit written statements to the North City Government within 14 days from July 10th. As of July 24, 109, there were no written statements. On July 15, 109, the draft of the control measures for mobile pollution sources in the air quality maintenance zone was sent to the legal department of the Taipei City government for review. The review was completed by the legal department on August 14, 109.
The schedule was submitted to the central competent authority for approval in August 109. The Environmental Protection Agency handled the review on September 8, 109, and formally approved it on October 20, 109.
4. Revised Taipei City’s Air Pollution Control Plan
The city’s air pollution prevention and control plan is written in accordance with Article 7 of the Air Pollution Law, and is coordinated with the National Environmental Protection Agency’s "109-112 Air Pollution Prevention and Control Plan" national control goals and implementation strategies, according to the city’s urban characteristics To set air quality and pollutant reduction targets, and achieve the goal of air quality improvement and maintenance through the planning and implementation of various air pollution prevention measures.
The city’s vision is to become a livable and sustainable city, and fresh air is an important indicator of a livable city, so that citizens can enjoy healthy air to breathe at ease, and achieve the World Health Organization’s recommended PM2.5 annual average (10μg/m3) in 119 As a long-term goal, and continue to improve the O3 air pollution problem, while reducing NOx and VOCs pollutants.
In order to effectively achieve the goal of improving the city’s air quality, the control is divided into 4 major directions, 20 prevention measures and 33 air pollution control tasks. Regular reviews and plans are carried out on implementation effectiveness and implementation methods. Various important measures include:
(1) Mobile source control: use the convenient advantages of the city’s public transportation system to continuously increase the utilization rate of public transportation to reduce the use of private transportation; in addition, scientific and technological law enforcement has been introduced, unscheduled locomotives have been banned, and an empty maintenance zone has been set up according to local conditions; continued to promote aircraft, Diesel vehicles are subsidized for obsolescence and improvement, and the civil service department is the first to promote; and promote the use of electric vehicles to improve vehicle exhaust.
(2) Stationary source control: improve the prevention and control equipment of the three incineration plants in the city; tighten the emission of sulfur oxides from boilers with fixed sources of pollution, counsel places to use low-polluting fuels; control volatile organic compounds at gas stations; formulate equipment specifications for the catering industry, and counsel catering to improve oil fume, etc. , Through legal counseling to effectively reduce emissions.
(3) Fugitive source control: continue construction site pollution emission control, and introduce electric small street sweepers into the lanes to strengthen street cleaning, improve corporate responsibility road adoption, change folk customs, reduce paper money burning and prohibit open burning, etc., and actively reduce people's livelihood Source of pollution.
(4) Comprehensive measures: construct a point, line, and plane 3D air quality monitoring network in the capital to fully grasp the changes in air quality in all districts of the city and analyze the source of pollution; the Environmental Protection Agency serves citizens to innovate for the city, evolves externally convenient operations, internal operations E Management, through improving administrative efficiency and online 24-hour application service, increase public satisfaction.
5. Implementation of Annual Projects Evaluation
In addition to regularly tracking and analyzing changes in air quality, this plan holds quarterly work review meetings to summarize work results, and cooperates with the Environmental Protection Agency's performance appraisal work to conduct a written air pollution control plan review operation; the air quality meeting was completed in May Purification area maintenance management briefing (1 session), and completed 32 on-site inspections in the four seasons, and the adoption of the city’s park area increased from 3 to 6 (adoption rate 75%), and counseled the campus to propose a green wall Apply for subsidized work, etc.
6. Advocacy and promotion
The focus of this year's publicity work is to promote the announcement of the "Taipei Phase I Air Quality Maintenance Zone Mobile Pollution Source Control Measures." This plan assists the Environmental Protection Agency in planning and implementing related publicity work through social media, bus advertisements, broadcasts, and street lights. Various channels such as electronic billboards and other publicity channels will make relevant control messages into easy-to-understand policy information lazy packages and convey them to the public.
One session of "Air Pollution Prevention and Control Counties and Cities Exchange Symposium" will be handled on December 4, 109 according to the scheduled schedule.
