The Chinese National Federation of Industries in its white paper this year called on the government to launch a carbon pricing mechanism, which showed that urging more climate action is no longer just an environmental campaign. The federation, chaired by Formosa Plastics Group chairman William Wong (王文淵), was previously critical of pollution control regulations and was therefore in conflict with local environmentalists. However, in the white paper released on Thursday, the federation joined environmentalists in calling on the government to pay more attention to the risks of extreme weather events, to implement a carbon pricing scheme and to draft a roadmap to