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Taiwan climate change policies presented in Doha

EPA Deputy Minister Yeh Shin-cheng details ROC climate change program Dec. 7 in Doha, Qatar. (CNA)

• Publication Date：12/10/2012
• Source： Taiwan Today

ROC Environmental Protection Administration Deputy Minister Yeh Shin-cheng spoke on Taiwan’s policies in response to global warming during the annual meeting of the Climate Parliament Dec. 7 at the 2012 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar.

“We are ready to share our expertise with other nations in the fight against global warming,” Yeh said in his talk, “Energy Technologies and Policies for Both Mitigation and Adaptation of Climate Change in Taiwan.”

“Taiwan is a victim of climate change, but also a provider of technology and policy for adaptation to climate change.”

According to the EPA, delegates were interested in Taiwan’s use of subsidies to promote green energy, its cultivation of skilled personnel and programs to assist other countries, while Climate Parliament Secretary-General Nick Dunlop called attention to the development of the island’s national smart grid network.

The Climate Parliament is an alliance of European parliamentarians and legislators from many developing countries devoted to a faster transition to renewable energy, the EPA said.

Separately, a declaration on the importance of sustainable food security signed by 40 countries at the U.N. conference cited Taiwan’s successful promotion of vegetarian meals and low-carbon communities, Taipei-based Central News Agency reported Dec. 9.

The statement called for greater attention to food security, organic agriculture, nongenetically modified crops and avoidance of intensive agriculture in the campaign against climate change. Among the signatories were Armenia, The Gambia, Georgia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nigeria, Panama, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Slovenia, Swaziland and Yemen.

Taiwan maintained a presence throughout the 18th session of the Conference of Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and 8th Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol Nov. 26-Dec. 7 with its booth in the Qatar National Convention Centre, where it publicized government and private sector policies on and achievements in sustainable development, a green economy, renewable energy sources and the reduction of carbon emissions, the EPA said. (THN)