| Taiwan has pledged to make all-out efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and will only consider emissions trading, or flexible mechanisms, five years from now, according to Environmental Protection Administration Minister Wei Kuo-yen.
Taiwan over the past 20 years has created high growth in greenhouse gas emissions as a result of its economic growth, made possible mostly by high energy-consuming industrialization. Statistics show that Taiwan's total greenhouse gas emission increased by 98.1 percent between 1990 and 2012 -- from 136.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents (MMTCDE) to 270.7 million MMTCDE...............................................Full Article: Source |