| Title | Assessment and Strategies Planning for Energy Saving and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Potentials of Transportation Sector |
| Dept | Transportation Energy and Environment Division |
| Year | 2006 |
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| Summary | On February 16, 2005, the Kyoto Protocol, which limits the production of global warming pollution, became an international law. Green house gas reduction action has become an important global mission inevitably. However, only Parties to the Convention that have also become Parties to the Protocol (i.e., by ratifying, accepting, approving, or acceding to it) will be bound by the Protocol’s commitments now. The individual targets for Annex I Parties are listed in the Kyoto Protocol’s Annex B. These add up to a total cut in greenhouse gas emissions at least 5% from 1990 levels in the commitment period 2008-2012. Taiwan has not been endowed with GHG reduction responsibility since Taiwan is not included in the Parties to the Convention. While on account of environmental protection and promotion of international competition, our government has been planning and conducting greenhouse gas reduction strategies at an early date. The 1st National Energy Conference, held in 1998, has booked an energy saving target for each sector. Transportation sector has proposed several strategies in response to the target since then. To review the follow-up strategies for the preparation of the 2nd National Energy Conference, it’s necessary to conduct the investigation of energy and green house gas baseline, GHG reduction potential evaluation, and control strategies for transportation sector presently. Therefore, the purposes and major works of this study are as follows: To establish GHG baseline and growth trends of land, marine and air transportation: GHG from 1990 to 2004 has been calculated and GHG emission trend up to 2025 has been predicted in the project. To evaluate the reduction potential of transportation sector: including a review of 1998 action plan and the revised mitigation measures (short and medium terms). To plan the radical reduction strategies for the long term: we have made a comparison for different scenarios of control measures and have addressed some recommendations in this study. |
| Post date | 2006/07/20 |
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