Climate Change Administration

Press Releases

2023-12-29

Revised Enforcement Rules of “Climate Change Response Act” Announced
2023-12-06

Revised Regulations Announced to Enhance Emission Certification and Inspection Capacities
2023-12-06

Important Regulations Announced to Ready Taiwan for Carbon Pricing Era
2023-12-06

Power Generators and Large Manufacturers Targeted for Carbon Fee Collection for Now
2023-12-06

Carbon Pricing System Ready to Launch with Diverse Tools to Promote Effective Carbon Reduction

Climate Change Affairs

Climate Change Response Policies

Climate change is a global challenge all humans face. To accelerate Taiwan's national emission reduction and reinforce Taiwan's ability to respond to climate change, the EPA proposed the "Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Management Act" amendment bill, amending its name to "Climate Change Response Act" (also known as the "Climate Act"). The amended "Climate Change Response Act" includes the Net Zero by 2050 goal, established ministerial responsibilities and authorities, added just transition, strengthened emission control and incentives to encourage emission reduction, dedicated uses for carbon fees collected, added a chapter on climate change adaptation, included carbon footprint and product labelling, and reinforced transparency and civic engagement mechanisms.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Management

The government and private secor are dedicated to promoting greenhouse gas emission management and reduction. To understand industry greenhouse gas emission realities, the "Greenhouse Gas Emission Examination Process Guidelines" and online emissions estimation tool were created to help industries consolidate and calculate greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, to ensure the quality of greenhouse gas emission examinations conducted by examination organizations, certification systems generally used by the international community are adopted and accreditation organizations are employed to accredit examination organizations.

Promotion of Greenhouse Gas Reduction

Implement carbon pricing as an important strategy to reduce emissions. To accelerate reduction, the economic incentive of carbon fees was added to the Climate Act. Fees collected will be dedicated to works related to greenhouse gas reduction, low carbon and negative emissions technology and industry development, and greenhouse gas reduction technology investment subsidies and awards so as to promote greenhouse gas reduction and encourage low-carbon economy development, promoting the steady reduction of emissions at a national level and advance towards net-zero transition goals.

Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience

To reinforce Taiwan's ability to respond to climate change and build a natinoal climate change adaptation mechanic, the MOENV proposed for the Executive Yuan's approval "National Climate Change Adaptation Action Plan (2023-2026)," which includes seven major areas for impact adaptation. Through inter-ministerial consolidation and implementation, the plan aims to enhance Taiwan's basic overall ability to respond to climate change and maximize implementation efficiency and performance.

Thematic Websites

Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting System

This system consolidates greenhouse gas emission examination and auditing. Registered businesses may report yearly greenhouse gas emission data through a portal, while MOENV-approved "Certified Accreditation Organizations," "Certified Examination Organizations" and other information are available for businesses. In addition, the system provides "Greenhouse Gas Emission Examination Process Guidelines," "Estimation Tool," and "Greenhouse Gas Examination Registration Form" for businesses to stay informed about greenhouse gas examination.

Greenhouse Gas Emission Examination
Greenhouse Gas Auditing Organizations

Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Reduction Offset Information Platform

The platform aims to make transparent reduction quotas and thus encouraging businesses to take action to manage climate change risks. It also aims to facilitate greenhouse gas reduction collaboratino between different sectors by publishing information about reduction needs and offset needs stemming from emission increases in environmental evaluations.

Registered Cases
Assigned-Quota Cases

Low Carbon and Sustainable Homeland

Public website providing information on Low Carbon and Sustainable Homeland for public education on the policy's content, implementation, results, and relevant knowledge.

Low Carbon
Sustainability

Carbon Footprint Information Platform

In order to assist enterprises in calculating product carbon footprints, it continuously builds and updates basic raw material carbon footprint emission factors and product category rule (PCR), provides enterprises to apply for Product Carbon Footprint Labels(PCF Labels), and also discloses the carbon footprints of products with PCF Labels. It's available for public information.

Carbon Footprint
Carbon Footprint Label
Product Category Rules
Carbon Footprint Emission Factor

Multifunctional Smart Rain Garden--Water Retention and Cooling Monitoring System

As its name suggests, a "rain garden" is a garden that collects rain. As the climate changes, percipitation patterns are affected and strong showers have become more frequent, raising chances for floods to occur in cities or low areas. By making use of and transforming empty plots of land and parks into gardens to collect rain, the environment can be beautified while the water can become a useful resource.