This Act is enacted in order to form strategies to reduce and manage greenhouse gas emissions, strengthen intergenerational justice, environmental justice, and a just transition, so that responsibilities of global environmental protection are shared and the nation’s sustainable development is ensured. The Text consists of 63 Articles divided into 7 Chapters: General provisions (I); Authority and Responsibility of Government Agencies (II); Climate Change Adaptation (III); Emission Reduction Measures (IV); Education and Grants (V); Penalty Provisions (VI); Supplementary Provisions (VII). The long-term national GHG emission reduction goal is to achieve GHG net-zero emission by 2050. To achieve the goal, all levels of government shall implement GHG reduction, develop negative emission technologies and facilitate international cooperation together with citizens, entities and organizations (art.4). To promote climate change response and enhance across sectoral governance, the National Council for Sustainable Development（NCSD）of the ExecutiveYuan shall coordinate, assign or integrate basic policies for national climate change response and major important strategies for cross sectoral climate change response affairs (art.8). To achieve the long-term national GHG emission reduction goal and periodic regulatory goals, the central competent authority may impose carbon fees in stages against Direct and Indirect GHG Emission Sources (art.28). The central competent authority may announce and periodically review targets of carbon fees and the rates. Entities subject to carbon fees who switch to low carbon fuels, adopt negative emission technologies, increase energy efficiency, use renewable energy or take measures to reduce GHG emissions effectively by improving manufacturing processes and reaching goals designated by the central competent authority, may propose voluntary reduction plans and apply for a preferential rate (art.29). The GHG Management Fund shall be established from the sources indicated in Article 32, including carbon fees.
مقاطعة تايوان الصينية · 2015-07-01