Taiwan reduces carbon emissions from burning fuel by 3.15 percent in 2019

2020/07/23

Taiwan produced 258.72 million metric tons of carbon emissions from burning fuel in 2019, down 3.15 percent compared to a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs July 21.
 
 It is the second consecutive year of reduction since the country’s total emissions reached an all-time high of 269.46 million metric tons in 2017, the ministry said, adding that the per capita emissions saw a similar reduction of 3.21 percent to 10.96 metric tons.
 
 According to the MOEA, the service sector showed the biggest improvement with a decrease of 4.56 percent during the period. The industrial sector, accounting for 48.9 percent of the nation’s total emissions, was second in terms of annual reduction, down 4.42 percent, followed by residential, 3.29 percent; energy, 1.28 percent; and agriculture, 0.8 percent.
 
 Such progress underscores the government’s commitment to creating a low-carbon homeland under a raft of measures introduced since 2017, including the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Action Plan, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Control Action Program and National Climate Change Action Guidelines, the ministry said.
 
 The changes are in line with the government target of bringing Taiwan’s greenhouse gas emissions to under 50 percent of the 2005 level by 2050, as stipulated in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Management Act, it added.

Source: Taiwan Today (https://taiwantoday.tw/index.php)