The objective of this project is to provide the international community convenient channels to understand how Taiwan carries out its environmental protection policy as well as propagate the policy’s results. This is done by translating professional reports concerning the development and future trends related to Taiwan's environmental protection policy into English and publishing them in periodicals as well as in the Internet. As of the end of March 2009 there have been 12 monthly and three special edition publications of the English version of Environmental Policy Monthly. A total of 720 copies were mailed out with 536 copies sent out domestically and 184 internationally; a total of 4,120 copies were sent out over the Internet. Combining the mail outs and Internet copies, the total readership for the English policy issues comes in at 4849. Monthly issue content is being provided to Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) for use on relevant departmental websites. Editors and translators were sent to the EPA to assist with English-language documents. Other tasks include producing and updating the EPA's multimedia English presentations as well as providing the English version of the EPA's two policy briefings to Legislative Yuan in 2008. The Environmental Policy Monthly database and search system were also maintained and updated regularly, but the English translation and printing of the EPA introduction booklet was unable to be completed this year as the Chinese version was not available.

environment, news, monthly