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Between Jan. 1 and the end of this month, humanity will exhaust Mother Nature’s biocapacity for the entire year of 2022. Biocapacity is the ability of ecosystems to regenerate resources and absorb waste. If they’re left alone, depleted fish stocks may recover, soil can regain its health and woodlands that have been thinned will regrow. Both oceans and forests absorb anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. But since around 1971, the world as a whole has been consuming ecosystem services and outputs faster than nature can regenerate them. Earth Overshoot Day exists to alert people to this al...

While the government’s proposed strategies to reduce carbon emissions generally align with those of the UN, government agencies have set relatively conservative targets to achieve the nation’s goal of achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, an Academia Sinica researcher said yesterday. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Monday released the third part of its Sixth Assessment Report. Local experts were yesterday invited to comment on the report at a news conference hosted by the Science Media Center Taiwan. Alan Lin (林子倫), deputy executive director of...