Title Information Platform for energy consumption and GHG emissions in the transport sector of Taiwan
Dept Transportation Energy and Environment Division
Year 2012
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Summary The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan on the 11th of December and came into effect on the 16th of February 2005. The Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Recognizing that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activities, the Protocol sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community to reduce GHG emissions. These goals amount to an average of a percentage point of five when measured against the 1990 levels over a five-year period 2008-2012. As reported by the International Energy Agency, from 1971 to 2007 global transportation energy usage rose steadily by between 2% and 2.5% a year, closely paralleling growth in economic activities around the world. In order to understand the energy usage and levels of GHG emissions in the transport sector of Taiwan, it is crucial to establish an information platform for collecting basic data, world-wide developments, policies and practices. Only then the platform will be able to generate support for the appraisals of policy-making.

　　The main conclusions of the National Energy Meeting, Taiwan 2009, inter-correlates with the development of green transport; mitigation of private vehicle usage and ownership; and the improvement of transport energy efficiency - as concentrated transport policies are targeted to meet the proposed levels of GHG emissions in the future. In addition, two auxiliary treatments: educational outreach; and research and development, are complementing one another. To evaluate and design emission reduction plans, the Institute of Transportation (IOT) has conducted several transport energy studies. The goal of this project is to systematically collect and integrate the results and basic data achieved by the existing IOT studies via the deployment of an information platform. The content includes two parts: the basic data base and the information base. The components of the former are past records of energy consumption, GHG emissions, social-ecological attributes, and transport-related aptitudes of the transport sector. And the latter is composed of energy related technological developments, regulations, policies, and links to web sources. Meanwhile, the platform is designed to support the data requirements of the concurrent project entitled - “A model for policy evaluation on transport energy and GHG emissions”.

　　In particular, based on the results of the previous-year’s study and the results of their investigations this year, the analysis of energy efficiency for terminal operations and the strategic framework and action plans on energy-saving and GHG emissions reduction for terminal facilities are both delivered in consensus with terminal administrators and operators.
Post date 2012/07/31
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