According to the survey results of the Risk Society and Policy Research Center (RSPRC), National Taiwan University, currently 51 parties have communicated their long-term strategy to UNFCCC.
The "Glasgow Climate Pact" was agreed at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26); The European Union, the United States, as well as Taiwan's neighboring countries including Japan and South Korea, have one after another proposed climate change response and economic transformation strategies, and countries around the world have also successively announced net zero admissions as national transformation targets.
The COP23 in Bonn, Germany has just finished. Participating countries have reached the consensus on the implementing mechanism including the content of rulebooks...
Although Taiwan's legislature has passed several bills and introduced several regulations in response to climate change, due to ineffective governance and the inaction of businesses, these policies have seen limited success. Our center, the Risk Society and Policy Research Center (RSPRC), believes that Taiwan's government and businesses need to take seriously the climate advocacy campaigns that are spreading rapidly across the globe, and to hear the demands of these environmental and student groups, so as to develop appropriate policies to address the gaps in governance in Taiwan that have arose due to the long-term neglect of the impact of climate change, of which we highlight the five we believe are most important.
The collapse of the Ho-ping electrical tower and the heat waves struck in the recent two weeks that caused power crisis, have highlighted current Taiwan’s centralized energy system fragility. In face of this crisis, although commentators believed that nuclear plant 1 and machine 2 of plant 2, whose fuel pool have already reached their upper limits, should be restarted to survive the crisis. However, this research team believes that we should follow Seoul South Korea’s example, who after a major blackout in 2011, has realized the importance of decentralized energy systems, thus vigorously promoted the “saving a nuclear plant” policy. To this power crisis, as to promote Taiwan's energy transformation social driving force.
Recently, the currently substantially revised version ofEnergy Act, which saw its seventh time in fifty years to enter the Legislative Yuan to be reviewed,. ..
Risk Society and Policy Research Centre (RSPRC) made the following statements regarding to the matter of schoolchildren in Mailiao Yunlin returning to Syucuo Branch of Ciaotou Elementary School on 31 August 2015 for the beginning of term...
The Centre releases the following two statements from the perspective of professional risk assessment, and suggests that the key points worthy of review and reflection are not issues such as cross-region coordination and the time of declaration time...