Taiwan: Taiwan Climate Change Overview

This report contains an overview and summary, with links to relevant resources, of Taiwan’s climate change legislation, action plans, guidelines, renewable energy goals, biofuels policy, and adaptation strategy. Taiwan enacted the Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Management Act in 2015, setting a goal to reduce 50 percent of carbon emission below 2005 level by 2050. In October 2021, it proposed a draft amendment which would strive for “net zero” emissions by 2050 as well as stipulate a carbon fee for emission. Agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions only account for 1 percent of Taiwan’s total emissions. Ag-focused measures to reduce GHG emission consist of expanding sustainable farming, utilizing biogas in livestock farms, and reforestation. Taiwan does not have a history of producing biofuel crops and faces a significant uphill battle to adopt a biofuels mandate in transportation.