| 英文摘要 |
The project of “Promote greenhouse gas emissions declaration in Taiwan and establish the mechanism of reduction management” (the Project), while meeting the contracted objectives according to the commissioned project guideline, represents the accumulation of work stretching from the continuing policy development of domestic GHG accounting, registration, validation, verification and project reductions for industries since 2004 to 2012. The Project has successfully delivered the following outcomes:
1. To develop domestic mandatory GHG reporting scheme and tools.
The Project has summarized the mandatory GHG reporting schemes applied by U.S. federal Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and local California EPA, European Union, Canada, Japan, U.K. and Australia including their design elements such as legislature basis, implementation date, reporting purposes, scope, reporting level, greenhouse gases, emission sources, reporting frequency, timeframe, verification approach and expected emission coverage under the scheme or program.
2. To assist the implementation of mandatory GHG reporting scheme.
The Project, as following the international principles, has assisted Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (the EPA) to develop domestic mandatory GHG reporting scheme, “Regulations of Mandatory GHG Reporting” and “Public and Private Premises under Regulations of Mandatory GHG Reporting”. In order to enhance public awareness in regulations of mandatory GHG reporting, the Project also arranged 10 explanation meetings and developed guideline and frequently asked questions. The Project has successfully collected 100% the first 3 seasons of GHG reporting data from the first mandatory group, with 136.35 million tCO2e direct emissions and 17.93 million tCO2e indirect emissions, contributing an overall 88.9% of total GHG emissions from power and industrial sectors, while the 4th season emission data continuous to be submitted.
3. On-going assisting domestic voluntary GHG reporting management in the industry level.
The Project has continuously assisted the EPA to maintain the National GHG Emissions Registry (the Registry). Based on latest figure in December 2013, there have been 488 entities (mainly manufacturers and utilities) reported its emissions information in total of 209.68 million tCO2e (150.1 million tCO2e from direct emissions), contributing 73.71% CO2 emissions from fuel combustion in energy and industrial sectors, and more than 88.6% of all reported emissions on the GHG Registry have taken third-party verification. In addition, the Project has consulted 50 entities to complete review and correction of their GHG emission data, making these voluntarily disclosed emissions reports 94.7% accurate by 15% increasing.
4. To develop an online GHG emissions reporting and management system.
The Project has developed an online GHG emissions reporting system (the system) serving as a platform and calculation tool supporting the mandatory scheme. The system has presented several important functions from emissions entry, data checking and searching to immediate following up and review process by the EPA officers.
5. To assist GHG policy and regulation prior the draft GHG Reduction Act passed.
The Project has analyzed international GHG policy and regulations in permitting, emission standard, and the management of accreditation, validation and verification bodies. In addition, the Project proposed GHG policy plan pursuant to Air Pollution Control Act, in order to continuously reduce GHG emission before the draft GHG Reduction Act passed. The Project has drafted the emission standard setting plan for Power Generation, drawing experience from US EPA (1,000-1,100 lbs CO2/MWh for coal-fired power plants and annual average of 1,100 lbs CO2/MWh or 7-years average of 1,000-1,050 lbs CO2/MWh for gas-fired power plants), suggested Taiwan EPA recommended values of 0.012-0.862 tCO2e/MWh for coal-fired power plants under scenarios of 100% to 0% CCS capture rates and 0.41 tCO2¬¬e/MWh for gas-fired power plants, as well as the regulation drafts of “Emission Permit Management for Stationary GHG Pollution Source” and the draft “GHG Pollution Source Emission Permit for Public and Private Entities”. The Project has completed preliminary policy direction of the emissions performance standard for the power sectors based on the U.S. approach on new power plants. In addition, the Project has assisted the completion of the draft “Management Regulations of GHG Validation and Verification Bodies (the V/VBs regulation)”. The draft V/VBs regulation is currently pending for public hearing and is planned to be announce by the end of 2013.
6. To host conferences and conduct meetings associated to GHG issues at both international and domestic settings
The Project has successfully held 18expert consultation meetings and total 110 experts been invited through the year as the contracted objectives required.
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