Reduction Activities of the First Phase Greenhouse Gas Emission Control Objectives for the Transportation Sector
- Date：2019-03-06
- Update：2019-03-06
- Department：IOT
Project Overview：
In order to promote the national greenhouse gas reduction policy, the Environmental Protection Administration has developed a national action guideline for climate change and a greenhouse gas reduction promotion program in accordance with the provisions specified in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Management Act. The Ministry of Transportation and Communications has developed the Transportation Sector Greenhouse Gas Emission Control Action Plan in accordance with the provisions specified in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Management Act and Enforcement Rules, as the basis for Taiwan's transportation departments to follow in promoting greenhouse gas reduction, and as the basis for special municipalities, counties, and cities to establish greenhouse gas control and implementation program in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Management Act.
The transportation sector is the third largest sector of greenhouse gas emissions in our country, with highway transportation emissions its largest proportion, accountingfor 95.87%. Passenger cars are the highest in highway transportation emissions with 51%, followed by large trucks with18%. For promoting greenhouse gas reduction in the transportation sector, the main challenges include “the growth rate of public transportation needs to be improved”, “high dependence on traditional fossil fuels” and “the proportion of old vehicles is increasing year by year, and the energy efficiency of transportation systems is to be improved”. There are urgent needs to strive on those aspects in order to achieve the objectives of reduction.
Research Outcomes：
We cooperated with the Environmental Protection Administration to research and develop the first-phase control targets for greenhouse gas emissions, and assisted in estimating the energy consumption of transportation sector, the energy conservation of each carbon reduction strategy.
We proposed reduction scenarios, estimations of reduction contributions and the Transportation Sector Impact Assessment Report for the First Phase Control Objective for the transportation sector.
We completed the development of Transportation Sector Greenhouse Gas Emission Control Action Plan (Draft), including (1) Develop public transportation systems, strengthen transportation requirement management, (2) Construct green transportation networks, promote the use of low-carbon transportation vehicles, and construct the transportation environment oriented in green vehicle, and (3) Improve three major strategies of transportation system and transportation vehicle energy efficiency, and propose 19 carbon reduction measures.
Promotion of Outcomes and Benefits ：
We completed the “Transportation Sector Greenhouse Gas Emission Control Action Plan (Draft)” on October 5, 2017, and submitted it to the Environmental Protection Administration to organize a public hearing for public explanation on November 23, expecting to submit it to the Executive Yuan before the end of June 2018.
The approved Transportation Sector Greenhouse Gas Emission Control Action Plan can be used as the basis for the local governments to develop and revise their Greenhouse Gas Control Implementation Programs.
Through the implementation of measures by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, Environmental Protection Administration and Ministry of Economic Affairs, it is estimated that the use of gasoline will be reduced by approximately 850,000 kiloliters, diesel will be reduced by approximately 130,000 kiloliters, and power use will increase by 410 million kWh, making for a total reduction of 1.98 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
Based on the Transportation Sector Emission Control Action Plan, we further supported the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in coordinating with the Ministry of Economic Affairs to draft a white paper on energy transition, and develop the Transportation Sector Energy Conservation Plan (Draft).
Summary of Key Research Outcomes：
