The British Office yesterday used Earth Day to launch a new campaign to promote a greener lifestyle, calling for support for environmental protection and sustainability.
The “Green is Great” campaign “is linked to the environment, sustainability, climate change and business,” British Office Taipei Director Chris Wood said.
A series of events are to be held in the coming months on topics ranging from wind power, corporate social responsibility and carbon capture, he said.
With the passage of the Climate Change Act 2008, the UK was the first country in the world to adopt statutory emission reduction targets, which require the government to reduce emissions by 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050, he said.
The UK has since shared its experience and expertise with other partners, including Taiwan, he said.
Wood praised Taiwan for passing its Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Management Act (溫室氣體減量及管理法) in June last year.
The first major event in the “Green is Great” campaign will be a UK-Taiwan offshore wind power conference to be held in Taipei on May 30.
A group of British experts will visit in June to meet with their Taiwanese counterparts to present the UK’s latest research on carbon capture and storage, he said.
A workshop on corporate social responsibility on climate change is scheduled for September and a UK-Taiwan nuclear workshop in November, where six UK decommissioning experts will share their experience, Wood said.
A British railway mission is also to visit in November, he said.
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