The Risk Society and Policy Research Center (RSPRC), National Taiwan University, held a forum as part of our series of Taiwan Risk Society Forums, on 5 December, 2018. The forum, titled, "What is the Future of Taiwan<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'</span>s Energy Transition after the Referendum?", was held in conjunction with several energy-related referendums that were held at the end of November 2018.On 24 November 2018, Taiwan held three referendums on energy-related issues, which were all passed.

The forum started with an opening speech contributed by Ching-Ray Chang, the Vice President of the NTU. He firstly acknowledged the RSPRC's efforts in the policy of energy transformation...

Except plans for petrochemical zone and high-value petrochemical industry promotion office as a way to solve the problems of high energy consumption...

Taiwan needs to form paradigms of risk governance: transparency of information, diversity of professional specialty, and public participation...

　　85% of Taiwanese support the development of renewable energy using higher electricity price, and 86.9% advocates for implementing environmental protection for future generations. How should the government respond to the global and national request?...

The discussion in this forum has roused widespread echo among audience. Someone proposed that the best energy in Taiwan is terrestrial heat, but ...

What kind of corporate social responsibility does our society need? Prof. Wen-Ling Hong put forward that more research should be done on building safety tools...

Lowering the level of consumption. If we do not make efforts, 50 years later the young generation will complain about the previous generations...