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The National Development Council is aiming for Taiwan to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050 with a policy that decouples economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions. The economy must continue to grow while carbon emissions are reduced. To allay public concern that reducing carbon emissions means hard times ahead, and the industry’ s worries that economic growth would slow as a result, it is important to reduce the intensity of carbon emissions. This requires a “fourfold effect” that incorporates energy, industry, lifestyle and society; four approaches that should go some way to halving input while increasing output. As such, Taiwan cannot return ....
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Cabinet can propose its own LNG referendum By Chen Wen-ching 陳文卿 The date has been set for a referendum on a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project near algal reefs on the coast of Datan Borough (大潭) in Taoyuan’s Guanyin District (觀音). Although the Cabinet is willing to discuss the project and has adopted some suggestions offered by environmental groups, it is still rejected by other environmental groups. Few people have a thorough understanding of the project’s ecological, environmental, energy and engineering implications, and rigorous thinking is needed to foresee the effects that either outcome passing or not passing the referendum would have. ....