Premier Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) said yesterday the government would look into Taiwan participating at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which has listed the country’s representatives as either “Hsinchu, China” or “Taipei, China.”
Because Taiwan is neither a member of the UN nor a signatory nation to the UNFCCC, over the years Taiwan’s representatives from the government or civil sector have attended UNFCCC sessions as members of NGOs.
On the official Web site of the conference, which is to be held in Denmark in December, members of the Hsinchu-based Industrial Technology Research Institute — which includes government officials — are listed under “Hsinchu, China.”
Other participants from Taiwan — the Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association, the Environmental Quality Protection Foundation and the Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy — are all listed as “Taipei, China.”
The name format is the same as that applied to NGOs from Beijing and Hong Kong. For example, China’s Research Center for Sustainable Development was listed as “Beijing, China” and Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden Corporation is listed as “Hong Kong, China.”
Saying that he had no idea why the country’s participants were listed under such a name format, Wu yesterday said the government would consider whether to take up the issue with the UNFCCC.
Wu said he had asked Vice Premier Eric Chu (朱立倫) to form a task force to handle the country’s bids to participate at the UNFCCC conference and at the International Civil Aviation Organization.
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