Hualien County held a greenhouse gas inventory training course today, and the trainees who pass the course can obtain the "ISO 14064-1:2018 Organizational Greenhouse Gas Internal Verifier" training certificate.
(Provided by Hualien County Government) (Photographed by reporter Hua Mengjing)
[Reporter Hua Mengjing/Hualien Report] President Tsai Ing-wen announced the goal of net zero emissions in 2050. The central government has set the goal of fully electrifying official vehicles and urban buses by 2030. The Hualien County government is also promoting the development goal of "net zero carbon emission sustainable Hualien" The Hualien County Environmental Protection Bureau stated that the 177 electric locomotives newly purchased this year are official locomotives for the village head, and they were delivered smoothly today, which is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 408 metric tons.
There are 177 village chiefs in Hualien County. The electric locomotives newly purchased by the county government were delivered today to replace fuel locomotives, so that the village chiefs can reduce carbon emissions every day they serve.
According to statistics from the Hualien County Environmental Protection Bureau, it is estimated that the service life can reduce 408 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, reduce particulate pollutants PM10 by 0.03 metric tons, PM2.5 by 0.22 metric tons, and carbon monoxide by 3.4 metric tons, contributing to Taiwan's low-carbon transformation.
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The Environmental Protection Bureau also pointed out that Hualien County also encourages the public to replace old motorcycles and buy electric motorcycles. The general public can receive a subsidy of up to 22,800 yuan per vehicle.
Climate change has led countries all over the world to propose 2050 net-zero emission declarations and actions. President Tsai Ing-wen also announced in 2021 that the world's goal is also Taiwan's goal, hoping to achieve "Taiwan's 2050 net-zero emissions". District buses and official vehicles are fully electrified, and the market-to-sales ratio of electric vehicles and electric locomotives will also increase from 35% in 2030 to 100% in 2040.
The Hualien County Government held a greenhouse gas inventory training today. The lecture was given by Professor Hong Yaoming of Nanhua University. He guided various agencies and enterprises to "carbon inventory", learned to establish and examine their own carbon emission sources and emissions, and then achieved net zero emissions by 2050. Students who passed the course Obtain the "ISO 14064-1:2018 Organizational Greenhouse Gas Internal Verifier" training certificate.
Rao Qinglong, deputy director of the Environmental Protection Bureau of the county government, said that since the central government announced the "Taiwan 2050 Net Zero Emissions Path and Strategy General Statement" in March last year, the county government immediately held two "Hualien County 2050 Net Zero Carbon Emissions Promotion Conferences" and established the " The Hualien County Net Zero Carbon Emissions Promotion Group” has comprehensively accelerated the promotion of Hualien County’s net zero strategy, and released the “Hualien County Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation Implementation Plan”, proposing short-, medium-, and long-term individual strategic plans to implement the goal of net-zero transformation long-term vision goals.
Hualien County held a greenhouse gas inventory training course today, and the trainees who pass the course can obtain the "ISO 14064-1:2018 Organizational Greenhouse Gas Internal Verifier" training certificate.
(Provided by Hualien County Government) (Photographed by reporter Hua Mengjing)
The Hualien County Government purchased new electric locomotives for the 177 village chiefs in the county. The vehicles are delivered today, which is estimated to reduce carbon emissions by 408 metric tons.
(Provided by Hualien County Government)