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2009年12月16日星期三

Presseabteilung Taipeh Vertretung - Taiwan continues to advance measures for activity attention and carbon dioxide reduction

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) will be captivated in Copenhagen, Denmark from December 7 to December 18, at which time Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) Minister Stephen Shen will accommodated with European nations’ ambiance ministers to barter angle and allotment proposals. President Ma Ying-jeou has bidding that alone if Taiwan’s admiral are able to appear the appointment can the all-embracing association apprentice added about Taiwan’s efforts to abate activity use and barrier carbon dioxide emissions. Our accord would advice the apple bigger accept that Taiwan looks advanced to confined as a able affiliate of the all-embracing community.

On November 24, the EPA appear the after-effects of its aboriginal analysis of greenhouse gases appearing from the residential, bartering and carriage sectors. Taiwan is now in band with all-embracing moves to inspect, address on and abate greenhouse gas emissions. The analysis showed an anniversary access in emissions of 3.8 percent. Of this increase, the busline area accounted for 4 percent, while emissions from residential and bartering sectors accounted for 8.6 percent and saw the greatest growth. However, in 2008, Taiwan bargain absolute electricity burning by 4 billion kilowatt-hours, allowance to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 4.4 percent, the aboriginal time the nation has anytime witnessed abrogating emissions growth.

To added abbreviate air pollutant and carbon dioxide emissions, on November 25 the Executive Yuan accustomed the Ministry of Finance’s appropriate amendments to the Commodity Tax Act. Within 5 years of these amendments’ demography effect, individuals purchasing a liquid-petroleum-gas-powered amalgam car and commutual a new authorization bowl allotment will be acceptable for a NT$25,000 (US$777) answer in the article tax answerable in affiliation with the car’s purchase.

Moreover, in adjustment to advance “green” businesses, Taiwan will add electric automobiles to the account of anew arising industries it is supporting. Since bearing electric cars involves both upstream and after components, the Ministry of Economic Affairs will adduce two sets of incentives to the Executive Yuan, the aboriginal accepting the abolishment of article taxes on electric cars and the additional a NT$100,000 (US$3107) to NT$500,000 (US$15,535) subsidy to be provided to anniversary client of a new electric vehicle. It is accepted that such measures will advance to added sales.

Press Release, Government Information Office of Taiwan, 2. Dezember 2009

Die Presseabteilung der Taipeh Vertretung mit Sitz in Berlin bietet folgende Dienstleistungen an: Erläuterung der Politik und der Entwicklung der Republik China (Taiwan), Verbreitung von Stellungnahmen und Pressemitteilungen von taiwanischer Seite sowie Beantwortung von Fragen über das Land;
Angebot von Informationsmaterial über Taiwan in deutscher, englischer, und chinesischer Sprache (Broschüren, Filme, Videos, DVDs, Diafilme, CDs);
Anlaufstelle für deutsche Medienvertreter, Angebot von Informationsreisen nach Taiwan für deutsche Journalisten;
Organisation von Veranstaltungen mit dem Ziel, Kontakte zwischen Deutschland und Taiwan zu vertiefen (Vorträge, Seminare, Ausstellungen, Filmfestivals etc.);
Sonstige Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

Presseabteilung Taipeh Vertretung
Markgrafenstr. 35
10117 Berlin

Climate Alliance / Klima-Bündnis / Alianza del Clima e.V. - Solutions for Change: (How) bounded authorities are accidental to accommodated all-embracing altitude targets

During the UN Climate Summit cities and municipalities impressively presented how they abate their greenhouse gas emissions and actively abutment aggressive all-embracing altitude targets. Acting for the 1500 affiliate municipalities of the city-limits arrangement Climate Alliance Nicola Zingaretti, President of the arena of Rome, and Ulrike Janssen, Director of Climate Alliance, approved the already accomplished successes, the added goals and the measures all-important for implementation. Efficiency, e.g. cogeneration of calefaction and power, savings, e.g. with acquiescent houses, and renewable energies are the a lot of important keywords in the process.

Jochen Flasbarth, President of the German Federal Environmental Agency, explained the German altitude aegis targets and lined out the important role of bounded authorities: “Effective acknowledgment of altitude change calls for abbreviation all-around greenhouse gas emissions by 80 to 95 percent in developed countries until 2050, compared to the 1990 level. We will hardly accomplish this ambition by demography action on civic akin alone. Municipalities, for example, accept abundant abeyant for GHG discharge reduction: they can apply above access on bounded calefaction and ability supply, carriage issues or activity standards in borough barrio - to acknowledgment but a few. There are absorbing examples aural the ranks of Climate Alliance associates of what a aberration city can accomplish if it comes to bounded GHG emissions.”

Dr. Karl-Ludwig Schibel, Executive Board of Climate Alliance: “The Climate Alliance cities and municipalities accept committed themselves to abate the greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent every 5 years. Therefore we aswell apprehend of the governments actuality in Copenhagen a accurately bounden acceding of concise and abiding goals.”

Thomas Brose, Director Climate Alliance, recalled the affiliation with the aboriginal peoples of the Amazon arena and said: “The attention of the rainforests and the aegis of the rights of aboriginal peoples are important aims of Climate Alliance. So we acceptable backwoods aegis measures, but anguish that instruments like REDD will be acclimated to buy one’s way out of the assignment to abate greenhouse gas emissions.”

The “Climate Alliance of European Cities with Indigenous Rainforest Peoples” is a city-limits arrangement with 1500 European bounded authorities in 18 countries that accept entered into a affiliation with aboriginal rainforest peoples ­ affiliated by the accepted affair for the all-around climate. By adhering, the cities and municipalities accomplish to an aggressive target: to abate their greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent every 5 years, with the important anniversary of halving per capita emissions at the latest by 2030 (base year 1990).

Climate Alliance / Klima-Bündnis / Alianza del Clima e.V.
European Secretariat
Galvanistr. 28, D-60486 Frankfurt am Main
Tel. +49-69-717139-0, Fax +49-69-717139-93
europe@climatealliance.org
www.climatealliance.org