The "Tainan City’s Low-Carbon Sustainable Home Project in 2023" is divided into five main sections which include maintaining the low-carbon sustainable home system and promoting greenhouse gases reduction and climate change adaptation, assisting the administrative villages in the jurisdiction with implementation and maintenance of their low-carbon sustainable actions, promoting greenery and cooling-down of building, helping with installation of the solar power system, as well as educating and disseminating the clime change adaption and low-carbon sustainability promotion. Regarding greenhouse gases reduction and climate change adaptation, this project supported managing various indicators and project performance in order to provide performance assessment data to the Ministry of Environment. The project held 2 consultation and cross-bureau coordination meetings regarding greenhouse gases reduction and climate change adaptation, and 1 meeting of the Low Carbon Adaptation and Sustainable Development Committee. Through these meetings, each promotional implementation and objective was reviewed, and the achievements of all the departments that followed the periodic regulatory goals of greenhouse gas emissions were determined, as well as the city’s action plan and the effectiveness of the relevant indicators’ promotion were adjusted based on the actual situation. The second meeting of the Low Carbon Adaptation and Sustainable Development Committee has been cancelled and approved to use the fund on at least 590 disseminating supplies for promoting low-carbon sustainable home and climate change adaptation. Additionally, the project submitted the data of the first half-year assessment to the Ministry of Environment on June 26th, and sent the official document of the implementation results of the second half-year assessment on November 17 th. The project completed the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) questionnaire for this year and uploaded it to the CDP website on July 25th. The CDP score results were announced on November 15th. Tainan received an A- score in the CDP result. By the final report, this project obtained the following five results in terms of maintaining the operation of the low-carbon sustainable home system: 147 administrative villages registered successfully, 5 administrative villages acquired Bronze certification (Degao Village in East District, Xihu Village in West Central District, Changduanshu Village in Houbi District, Zhongcheng Village in Liuying District, and Minrong Village in Xinying District), 1 administrative village (Qiaonan Village in Yanshui District) acquired Silver certification, and 11 villages passed the tracing check as well as 12 subsidized villages in 2022 passed the tracing check. Until now, the low-carbon sustainable home system obtained several achievements as follows, 458 administrative villages registered successfully, 51 administrative villages acquired Bronze certification, 11 administrative villages acquired Silver certification, and all 37 administrative districts participated in the evaluation of low-carbon sustainable home certification, of which 30 administrative districts registered successfully, 1 administrative district obtained Bronze certification, and 6 administrative districts obtained Silver certification. In addition, this project participated in 1 meeting related to the life circle in the southern area of Taiwan and 1 Pingtung County’s Technical Consultation and Review Board Meeting. Furthermore, the project assisted in the implementation of three counselling subsidy plans: assisted 17 communities in total with renovations or repairs under the "Low-Carbon Sustainable Home Construction Counselling Plan in Tainan City 2023," which included 6 low-carbon communities with reconstruction demonstration and 11 low-carbon communities with certification maintenance; assisted 2 administrative villages with public building greening and cooling construction under "Building Greening and Cooling Construction Counselling Plan in Tainan City 2023;" in July, the "Installation of Solar Power System Counseling Plan" supported 4 units implementing solar power system construction, and organized 4 seminars about promotion of solar power system construction, furthermore, conducted 5 solar power system installation diagnosis and assessment in August. In the part of the training and dissemination on climate change adaption and the promotion of low-carbon sustainability education, this project organized 1 educational training course on climate change adaptation in June, villages that cooperated with the Environmental Protection Bureau to upgrade to the Bronze certification for the evaluation of low-carbon sustainable home certification this year were invited to visit the Tianpu community in Yujing District, and helped the Environmental Protection Bureau issue a press release. In addition, the project organized 2 seminars on low-carbon sustainability promotion in September and October, one was held in the community and invited volunteers from villages of East district with the topic of "Low-Carbon Lifestyle" and "Energy and Water Conservation and Carbon Reduction; " another one was held for the campus with the topic of "Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction" and "Building Greening." In October, this project held 1 visiting tour related to the low-carbon sustainable home, inviting low-carbon sustainable homes in the city to visit two silver-certified high-quality communities in Yunlin County – Pitou Village in Xiluo Town and Beixi Village in Huwei Town, combined with actual green tourism practices in order to stimulate local creative energy to jointly build a low-carbon city. For the work of dissemination and administrative cooperation, this project organized 5 energizing training about the promotion of community environmental education in Tainan City, publicized the project's subsidy plans through the training and raised local communities' awareness of this year’s subsidy plan. The project also contributed to the communication campaigns of "Earth Hour," including filming a video on the day, preparing props for the filming, compiling the text for the Facebook page, and designing the Facebook cover. Moreover, this project conducted an assessment of the "Promotion of Participating in Low-Carbon Sustainable Home" for the environmental protection volunteer subsidy and district administration assessment committee in 2023 and prepared a presentation for the committee. Finally, this project consulted the Bronze certification communities of Saiwan Village in Younkang District and Degao Village in East District to participate in the low-carbon sustainable home village multi-competition, assisted in compiling the application documents of the participating communities, submitted them to the Climate Change Administration, and conducted the PowerPoint for communities and accompanied them to participate in the competition at Garden Villa Hotel in Kaohsiung City. This project also accompanied the community to participate in low-carbon village performance workshops in August and September, promoting the Low-Carbon Sustainable Home Certification and discussing the establishment of the Gold certification.

low-carbon sustainable home system, greenhouse gases reduction , climate change adaptation