Taiwan and the U.K. hosted an industrial decarbonization workshop May 12 in Taipei City, highlighting the like-minded partners’ commitment to enhancing net-zero transition and bilateral climate change cooperation.
Organized by the Ministry of Environment and the British Office Taipei, the event was presided over by Deputy Environment Minister Hsieh Yein-rui and BOT representative Ruth Bradley‑Jones. MOENV Climate Change Administration Director General Tsai Lin-yi and Harley Collins, head of industrial decarbonization at the U.K. Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), delivered keynote speeches.
According to the MOENV, the event comprised four panel discussions on creating smart and flexible power grid infrastructure, expanding carbon reduction solutions in the transformation of heavy industries, assisting small- and medium-sized businesses to break through carbon reduction barriers and exchanging opinions on just transformation of labor support mechanisms.
Hsieh said during the event that Taiwan had a legal goal to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and had updated its national greenhouse gas reduction targets to respectively 26-30 percent and 36-40 percent below the 2005 level by 2030 and 2035. The carbon pricing system launched last year will further be combined with the Taiwan Green Growth Fund to accelerate the low-carbon transformation of industries, he added.
Bradley‑Jones said that Taiwan and the U.K. complement each other on industrial carbon reduction. She noted that both countries regard the issue as an overall economic transformation rather than a single climate challenge.
Following the workshop, Environment Minister Peng Chi-ming met participants, including representatives from the DESNZ and U.K. enterprises, May 13 in Taipei.
Discussing future cooperative plans, Peng said Taiwan will learn from British experience and introduce more market-oriented concepts to advance the emissions trading system. U.K. companies and funds are welcome to invest in Taiwan, especially in net-zero industries such as offshore wind power and carbon capture and storage, the minister noted.
Peng further anticipated that the two sides will contribute to global and Asian net-zero markets by leveraging Taiwan’s advantages in semiconductor, information and communication technology industries and the capital market, as well as U.K. strengths in finance, climate policies and innovation. (YCH-E)
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Organized by the Ministry of Environment and the British Office Taipei, the event was presided over by Deputy Environment Minister Hsieh Yein-rui and BOT representative Ruth Bradley‑Jones. MOENV Climate Change Administration Director General Tsai Lin-yi and Harley Collins, head of industrial decarbonization at the U.K. Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), delivered keynote speeches.
According to the MOENV, the event comprised four panel discussions on creating smart and flexible power grid infrastructure, expanding carbon reduction solutions in the transformation of heavy industries, assisting small- and medium-sized businesses to break through carbon reduction barriers and exchanging opinions on just transformation of labor support mechanisms.
Hsieh said during the event that Taiwan had a legal goal to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and had updated its national greenhouse gas reduction targets to respectively 26-30 percent and 36-40 percent below the 2005 level by 2030 and 2035. The carbon pricing system launched last year will further be combined with the Taiwan Green Growth Fund to accelerate the low-carbon transformation of industries, he added.
Bradley‑Jones said that Taiwan and the U.K. complement each other on industrial carbon reduction. She noted that both countries regard the issue as an overall economic transformation rather than a single climate challenge.
Following the workshop, Environment Minister Peng Chi-ming met participants, including representatives from the DESNZ and U.K. enterprises, May 13 in Taipei.
Discussing future cooperative plans, Peng said Taiwan will learn from British experience and introduce more market-oriented concepts to advance the emissions trading system. U.K. companies and funds are welcome to invest in Taiwan, especially in net-zero industries such as offshore wind power and carbon capture and storage, the minister noted.
Peng further anticipated that the two sides will contribute to global and Asian net-zero markets by leveraging Taiwan’s advantages in semiconductor, information and communication technology industries and the capital market, as well as U.K. strengths in finance, climate policies and innovation. (YCH-E)
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