Journal
ATMOSPHERE
Volume 12, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/atmos12070859
Keywords
energy sector; greenhouse gas emission; regulatory measure; promotional action
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The trend analysis of GHG emissions from Taiwan's energy sector showed a growth period from 1990 to 2005 and a decoupling period from 2005 to 2018. This was attributed to regulatory measures on energy saving improvement and renewable energy supply by the government. The installed capacities of photovoltaic power also significantly increased.
The mitigation strategies and actions for mitigating the emission of greenhouse gas (GHG) from the energy sector become more important and urgent. The main aim of this paper was to present a trend analysis of the emissions of GHG from the Taiwan's energy sector, which was issued by the central competent authority through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) methodology. The data also complied with the procedures of measurement, reporting and verification. Based on the official database, the statistics on energy supply, energy consumption and GHG emissions will be connected to analyze the trends of environmental and energy sustainability indicators over the past decades. It showed that the trends of the relevant sustainability indicators based on GHG emissions from the energy sector indicated two development stages: the growth period (annually 5.6%) of 1990-2005, and the decoupling period (annually 0.5%) of 2005-2018. This result could be ascribed to the Taiwan government by promulgating some regulatory measures on energy saving improvement and renewable energy supply during this period. It was worthy to note that the installed capacities of photovoltaic (PV) power increased from 888 megawatt (MW) in 2015 to 5817 MW in 2020. These technological, behavioral, managerial and policy advancements are in accordance with global mitigation strategies. Under the authorization of the energy-related regulations, some promotional actions or programs for efficient energy use and renewable electricity supply were also announced to reach the targets of GHG emissions reduction in the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
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