| Summary |
In order to encourage the voluntary reduction of greenhouse gas emission sources, our Country's "Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Management Act" and "Regulations Governing Greenhouse Gas Offset Project Management" have established relevant regulations; all businesses can apply for reduction credits (i.e. carbon rights) from the Environmental Protection Administration
through the implementation of the offset project.
In order to assess the potential of the domestic automobile transportation industry to participate in the GHG Offset Project, this study collects and analyzes the reduction methodologies of the GHG Offset Project approved by the Environmental ProtectionAdministration, including the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and domestic (localized) reduction methods,and assess the applicability of domestic automobile transportation industry to participate in the GHG Offset Project through interview with the operators and expert consultation. The results of this study suggest that the highway competent authorities can first focus on the "Highway Automobile Transportation Enterprise", "Metropolitan Automobile Transportation Enterprise" and "Automobile
Cargo Transportation within Designated Route(s) Enterprise" for guidance on GHG Offset Projects; among them, the "Highway Automobile Transportation Enterprise" and "Metropolitan Automobile Transportation Enterprise" can cooperate with the bus electrification policy, and preferentially apply the CDM Methodology AMS-III.C. (emission reductions by electric and hybrid
vehicles), while it would be more feasible for the "Automobile Cargo Transportation within Designated Route(s) Enterprise" to apply the CDM Methodology AMS-III.BC. (emission reductions through improved efficiency of vehicle fleets).
In addition, this study estimates the possible carbon reduction and operating costs of the automobile transportation business operator participating in the GHG Offset Project under specific scenarios, and the possible incentives and difficulties for the operators to participate in the GHG Offset Project are comprehensively summarized to propose three guiding principles from the economic,technical and policy aspects respectively. Following the action plan in the "2020 Transportation Policy White Paper" of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, this study further proposes six short-term and mid-to-long-term promotion suggestions,which can be used as the reference for the highway competent authorities to guide the automobile transportation industry to participate in the GHG Offset Project, expecting to deepen and integrate the implementation and promotion of greenhouse gas reduction strategies in the transportation sector. |
