The objective of this project was to provide the international community convenient channels to understand how Taiwan carries out its environmental protection policy as well as propagate the performance. 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 on the Internet. As of the end of March 2009, 12 issues of the English version of Environmental Policy Monthly were published, with 1000 copies for each issue, 100 of which were for Environmental Protection Administration’s own use. A total of 779 copies were mailed out each month, with 469 copies sent out domestically and 310 internationally; a total of 4,075 copies were sent out over the Internet. Combining the mail outs and Internet copies, the total readership for the Environmental Policy Monthly came in at 4849. Contents of the Monthly were provided to Taiwan’s EPA for use on relevant departmental websites. Two editors were sent to the EPA to assist with the editing of English documents. Other tasks included producing and updating the EPA's short and long versions of multimedia English presentations twice as well as providing the English version of the EPA's two policy briefings to Legislative Yuan in 2009. The Environmental Policy Monthly database and search system were also maintained and updated regularly. However, 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