[Reporter Huang Yuyan/Taichung Report]The 2024 Fourth Taiwan Climate Action Expo (TWCAE 4) is expected to be held in Taichung in mid-October this year, and related activities will kick off at the National Museum of Natural Science on April 25. Director Cai Lingyi of the Climate Change Administration of the Ministry of Environment, Director Cheng Jiaping of the Central Meteorological Administration, Chief Investment Officer Cheng Shufen of Cathay Financial Holdings, CEO Zhao Gongyue of the International Climate Development Think Tank, Director Jiao Chuanjin of the Science and Technology Museum, etc. jointly announced “2024 Taiwan’s COP in Central Taiwan” at the meeting . The heads of eight counties and cities of the “Central Taiwan Regional Governance Platform” simultaneously released videos on Facebook in response to Earth Day.
So-called COPThe full name is Conference of the Parties, which is the Conference of the Parties. It is the largest climate conference under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It has been held annually since 1995 to assess progress in combating climate change.
The 2024 “4th Taiwan Climate Action Expo” will use “Unity in Diversity” as the overall image appeal of climate action, emphasizing the establishment of a vision of inclusiveness, equality, interaction, connection and inclusion, and promoting different backgrounds and perspectives understanding and cooperation; in addition, the 2024 expo and forum activities will continue to connect international issue trends and align with the COP theme, and actively respond to COP28’s first “Local Climate Action Summit” with local leaders as the main body.
Zhao Gongyue, CEO of the International Climate Development Think Tank, said that the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) has written the transformation of fossil fuels into the United Nations resolution, which can be said to be the beginning of the end of fossil fuels for mankind. This event is held in conjunction with World Earth Day on April 22. The theme of this year’s Earth Day is “Plastic Reduction”. We hope to use this event to invite partners from various fields to create science-based climate action. We are very honored to join forces with 8 counties in central China. The city’s regional governance climate actions look forward to public-private collaboration to implement the net-zero transition.
Zhang Dachun, deputy secretary-general of the Taichung City Government, said that in recent years, eight counties and cities in Central Taiwan have transformed from traditional energy hubs to key renewable energy development areas, jointly building a low-carbon industrial ecosystem in central cities, and look forward to the opportunity of cooperation and jointly organizing the expo. , expand the green living circle for people in Central Taiwan, and create a low-carbon industry value chain ecosystem in central cities to respond to the new international trade mechanism and meet the market opportunities of global low-carbon industry chain transformation.
Taiwan announced its 2050 net-zero emissions target on Earth Day, April 22, 2021. Three years later, the trajectory of Taiwan’s net-zero action has linked up the governance capabilities of central ministries and commissions, established an overall cross-sector social collaboration structure, and further moved towards the milestone of local net-zero. The theme of this year’s World Earth Day is “One More Plastic is worse than One Less Plastic”, which aligns with the United Nations’ Global Plastics Convention, which will be finalized at the end of 2024 and agrees to reduce plastics by 60% by 2040 and regulate the production, sales and management of petrochemical plastic products. Develop clear regulations for various aspects such as recycling that can be gradually legalized.
