GREENPEACE POLL: Other top choices among 14 policies to address climate change were building net zero social housing projects and creating low-emissions city centersBy Wu Po-hsuan and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
An exhibition by underwater photographer Wu Yung-sen (吳永森) to promote marine conservation opened on Friday at SPOT-Taipei Film House.
Greanpeace Taiwan, which is working with Wu, said it hopes the exhibition will garner support for its campaign for the government to pass a marine conservation bill.
Greenpeace and Wu have donated one of his works to the Executive Yuan to call attention to the bill, Greenpeace said on Friday.
Wu said that Environmental Jurists Association lawyer Kuo Hung-yi (郭鴻儀) inspired him to hold the exhibition, which runs until Friday next week.
Kuo has said that conservation of the oceans is important, as they become
Environmentalists on Wednesday called on the government to integrate marine survey data to establish a government database to reduce the environmental impact of offshore development projects.
The government in 2019 encouraged people to explore the sea and promulgated the Oceans Basic Act (海洋基本法), aiming to make the nation “a high-quality marine country that is ecological, safe and prosperous.”
However, the nation’s surrounding marine environment is endangered by the development of many tourism, fisheries and offshore wind farm projects, the Chinese-language online media Environmental Information Center quoted Wild at Heart Legal Defense Association secretary-general Kuo Hung-yi (郭鴻儀) as saying on Wednesday.
The Ministry of
Lawyers sign a petition to facilitate climate lawsuits
By Lo Chi and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
More than 50 lawyers have signed a petition to allow people to instigate climate-related lawsuits as the government mulls amending the Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Management Act (溫室氣體減量及管理法).
Globally, climate advocates are increasingly using lawsuits in national and international courts as a strategy to prompt action, Environmental Rights Foundation president Lin San-chia (林三加) said yesterday.
This is because demanding legal remedies to climate change might bring about real change, Lin said.
However, Taiwan lacks a theoretical framework and legal mechanisms to tackle such lawsuits, he said.