Call on suppliers to respond together and do their part to protect Taiwan's ecology

Far EasTone Telecom held the first "Seminar on Biodiversity Impacts of Telecommunications Industry Economic Activities" yesterday (22) and invited 7 researchers from the Biodiversity Research Center of Academia Sinica (Academia Sinica's Diversity Center) to promote the importance of biodiversity , in addition to assessing and discussing the impact of economic activities in the telecom industry on the ecological environment, Far EasTone has also given full play to the spirit of corporate social responsibility and invited more than 300 suppliers and partners to respond together, hoping to find solutions that can take into account economic development while reducing the impact of economic activities on the environment. The solution to systemic shocks leaves rich biological assets for future generations.

Far EasTone invited ecologists from Academia Sinica to hold a seminar on biodiversity. Li Heyin (left), Senior Vice President of Far EasTone Telecom's Legal Affairs and Procurement Group, and Chen Guoqin (right), Acting Director of Academia Sinica's Biodiversity Center, exchanged gifts.

Li Heyin, Senior Deputy General Manager of Far EasTone Telecom's Legal Affairs and Purchasing Group, said that human economic activities will inevitably have an impact on the environment, and how to minimize the impact and co-prosperity and mutual benefit with the environment is an important issue, which ended at the end of last year. In the COP15 meeting of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, we were reminded that millions of species are on the verge of extinction. Therefore, in addition to reducing carbon emissions, the industry also needs to pay equal attention to the impact of economic activities on the ecology, and actively assume the responsibility of protecting the ecology. This is also one of Far EasTone's sustainable strategies. This time Far EasTone is leading the industry in organizing the "Seminar on Biodiversity Impacts of Economic Activities in the Telecommunications Industry", hoping to serve as a demonstration and let other telecom operators and enterprises join in the protection of biodiversity. ranks, so that the next generation can continue to have a beautiful and rich ecological environment.

Chen Guoqin, acting director of the Diversity Center of Academia Sinica, said that biodiversity is a topic of global concern. Compared with the total land area of ​​the world, Taiwan is an extremely small island.

However, because of the high degree of diversity in Taiwan's habitats, there are more than 3,900-meter-high Yushan Mountains, and there are also more than 4,000-meter-deep seabeds in the eastern sea area, allowing us to have 2.5% of the world's species.

Therefore, the conservation and sustainable use of Taiwan's native biodiversity is very important, and this is also the main task of the Diversity Center.

If you want to do a good job in conservation, the most basic thing is to understand and learn about living things and their ecological environment.

Thanks to Far EasTone Telecom for this invitation, and hope to take an important step forward for Taiwan's biodiversity conservation and environmental sustainable management.

Far EasTone Telecom held the first seminar on biodiversity impact of economic activities in the telecommunications industry.

The first "Seminar on Biodiversity in Economic Activities in the Telecommunications Industry" was divided into two sessions: morning and afternoon. In the morning session, the Diversity Center of Academia Sinica, Far EasTone Telecom, and major suppliers Taiwan Nokia and Taiwan Ericsson discussed the future construction of base stations and computer rooms in the telecommunications industry. , how to take biodiversity into consideration for in-depth discussions and exchanges; in the afternoon session, researchers from the Diversity Center of Academia Sinica will focus on intertidal zones, marine ecology, stream biodiversity conservation, shallow and deep mountains, open data, urban light sources and other topics. Sharing, providing suppliers and partners with research findings and suggestions from different perspectives. After the meeting, Far EasTone will also require key suppliers to sign the "Biodiversity Commitment Letter" to truly incorporate biodiversity into their future business considerations.

Far EasTone firmly believes that implementing new plans to prevent global warming and protecting biodiversity is not only an important commitment to the enterprise, but also to every member of society.

For this reason, in addition to making a biodiversity commitment in 2022, Far EasTone will continue to actively respond to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 15: Conserve Terrestrial Ecology, and take specific actions to protect and sustainably use biodiversity , and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits of genetic resources.

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