In order to convey to the consumers the importance of carbon dioxide emissions reduction, this project has held a large scale carbon dioxide emissions reduction promotional event on September 24, 2006, which was jointly organized by 10 residential, commercial and civil organizations. In addition, the citizens’ carbon dioxide emissions reduction information website was established to serve as a portal to provide the industry, consumers, teachers and students with information related to carbon dioxide emissions reduction activities. Also provided on this website is an equation to calculate the contributions to carbon dioxide reduction, so that through simple calculation the consumers may know how much electricity is saved through their emissions reduction actions. Beginning in May 2006, the project initiated the Internet Voting for the Best Daily Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reduction Tips and the Best Emissions Reduction Slogans Contest, and has received 344 submissions of slogans contest and accumulated over 152,888 votes for the tips voting. During this voting event, promotional posters were posted on the cars/buses of Taipei Rapid Transit, city buses, Taiwan Railway commuter cars and major large-scale retail stores throughout Taiwan. Advertisements were also placed on journals and magazines, such as Scientific Americans, Studio Classroom, and the online edition of China Times newspaper. The objective of such multimedia promotional activities is to raise the citizens’ awareness to the importance of carbon dioxide emissions reduction actions. In terms of promotional materials, the following were produced by the project: 1. Over 16,000 copies of Daily Emissions Reduction Tips were distributed to the consumers; 2. Three issues of Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reduction Newsletters were published in both Chinese and English, and one issue of newsletter on Best Slogan Contest and Best Daily Tips Voting was also published; 3. In order to increase the participation in the aforementioned contest and voting, cool cards and promotional posters were also distributed around the island. This project collected and analyzed information related to major countries’ residential, commercial and transportation sectors’ greenhouse gas emission statistics, emissions reduction strategies, and relevant promotional activities. The countries in which information were collected included US, Canada, European Union, UK, Germany, Japan and Singapore, and the information was collected from national communications posted on the UNFCCC website, and each countries’ relevant websites, as well as conferences proceedings and meeting materials. The project also collected information related to OECD member countries’ emissions reduction measures, strategies and technologies for commercial and residential sector, and energy related information from the Pew Center and UNDP. For this part of the task, the project collected information related to the Second National Energy Meeting, the Citizens’ Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reduction and Energy Saving Campaign Project, and draft Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act. In order to analyze the greenhouse gas emissions from various building types and estimate and establish the energy efficiency standards, over 500 organizations were surveyed for their energy consumption, which included 60 famous hotels, 59 department stores/wholesale-clubs/gyms, 350 Taipei city/county elementary schools, 22 government agencies and 9 office buildings. Of the organizations surveyed, 48% responded to the survey, including 18 hotels. The 18 hotels take up the greatest portion (47%) of all respondents’ emissions, while the 240 elementary schools only take up 20%. Yet the surveyed hotels emissions are less than 1% of total commercial sector emissions in 2005. The calculated unit electricity consumption per floor area (EUI value) and GHG emissions efficiency standard for the hotel business in Taiwan in 2005 are 219kWh/ m2.year and 177 kgCO2/ m2.year respectively; while the corresponding values for elementary schools are only 26kWh/ m2.year and 17 kgCO2/ m2.year respectively. These results show that great differences exist between different building types even within the commercial sector in terms of energy efficiency. As of December 2006, 326 products from 28 Taiwan domestic manufacturers are qualified to use the ENERGY STAR mark under the ENERGY STAR program in Taiwan. These products include 8 computers, 216 monitors, 38 multifunction devices, and 64 scanners. The environmental benefits achieved through these products are 8.53 million kWh in electricity saving, which is equivalent to savings of 17.65 million NT dollars in energy costs and reducing 5292 metric tons in carbon dioxide emissions.For the after-market surveillance of ENERGY STAR products, a total of 100 products were sampled from the market in 2006, and only 3 computer monitors from Asus were found to be using ENERGY STAR mark without application. Asus has since applied for use of the mark to the ENERGY STAR program in US and has qualified to use the mark on some of its monitor models. The project also held two promotional seminars, in order to establish cooperation mechanism with the qualified product manufacturers, large scale retailers and civil organization, to spread ENERGY STAR information in their internal newsletters and announcements, and strengthen their employee training on greenhouse gas emissions reduction. Furthermore, in order to meet the different demands of consumers and manufacturers, the information on the ENERGY STAR website was divided into two parts for consumers and manufacturers respectively, and provides different sets of information. As for the ENERGY STAR newsletter, three issues were issued in both Chinese and English language; in addition, ENERGY STAR promotional pamphlet and a special booklet on results and achievements of ENERGY STAR was also published.

Carbon Dioxide, ENERGYSTAR, Greenhouse Gases, Office Equipment