The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the major platform for international cooperation on climate change since it was signed in 1992. To further “limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius”, the Paris Agreement signed in 2015 established two further mechanisms, “Nationally determined contributions (NDCs)” and “the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)”, to build trust and confidence that all countries are regularly reporting their progress of mitigation policy and improving ambitions against their promise. Meanwhile, as global climate actions had become more prevalent and had brought changes to our law, social system, policy and everyday life, enhancing public communication is essential to build consensus among different stakeholders. Therefore countries and major institutions worldwide are launching different kinds of climate platforms. Their approaches and outputs could be a reference for our country. In 2015, Taiwan had approved the Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Management Act to address the “common but differentiated responsibilities” on climate change and policy transparency required by UNFCCC. The Act sets up the 2050 national GHG emission reduction goal, requires the government to set up phased GHG emission targets once every five years , and requires to publish the National Communication once every three years. This project aims at improving the implementation mechanisms of GHG reduction targets mentioned above based on the progress of global GHG mitigation. To date Taiwan had launched “the Climate Talks”, a governmental platform for promoting conversation on climate actions between stakeholders. As society becomes more aware of climate issues, this project aims at include more topics, contents and functions in the Climate Talks to strengthen public communication, build up consensus and long-term partnership among stakeholders for co-developing a low-carbon sustainable future.

Phased GHG emission targets, National Communication, Climate Talks