Toward green transition in the post Paris Agreement era: The case of Taiwan

Feng, Chun-Chiang; Chang, Kuei-Feng; Lin, Jin-Xu; Lee, Tsung-Chen; Lin, Shih-Mo

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112996

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“…Kim (2021), studying both Taiwan and South Korea, notes that developmental states respond to the renewable sector's global expansion by cultivating technical and economic competitiveness among its higher education, manufacturing, government and civic institutions. Chien (2020), with her study on Taiwan's offshore wind power, notes that the state can “reunite its developmentalist drive for growth with the rising environmentalist demand for energy transition.” We have witnessed an overall shift in both the political narratives and scholarly discussion, from a view seeing climate actions as about fulfilling responsibility to one centered around green growth opportunities that would help strengthen Taiwan's industrial competitiveness (Feng et al, 2022; Hu et al, 2016, 2017). Nonetheless, whether such “green developmentalism” could overthrow Taiwan's entrenched high‐carbon regime remains an open question.…”

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Politics of climate change mitigation in Taiwan: International isolation, developmentalism legacy, and civil society responses

Liu

Chao

2023

WIREs Climate Change

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This focus review summarizes climate politics in Taiwan at the global, the national, and the local level. The article begins with an introduction to Taiwan's emission profile, major actors, and recent policy development. At the global level, Taiwan's unique international status has limited its responses to climate change as mostly gesture policies, but recently corporate climate actions bloomed due to pressures from the supply chains. At the national level, Taiwan's developmental state legacy has locked the country in a “high‐carbon regime” and struggled with the debate on nuclear power. Finally, at the local level, Taiwan seeks to facilitate climate actions with the principle of energy democracy, yet public participation still falls short and local land use conflicts will present enormous challenges. The article ends with a discussion on current knowledge gaps and invites future research to put Taiwan into comparative perspectives. This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance > National Climate Change Policy

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Politics of climate change mitigation in Taiwan: International isolation, developmentalism legacy, and civil society responses

Liu

Chao

2023

WIREs Climate Change

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“…There is a growing body of literature addressing policy aspects of Taiwan's energy transition [17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. A large part of Taiwan's energy transition has been based on increasing the share of renewable energies in power generation.…”

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“…Wang et al (2021) applied the optimal control theory to study the optimal energy mix for power generation for Taiwan to balance the need for energy security and reduced CO 2 emission [18]. Based on simulation results using a computable general equilibrium model, Feng et al (2022) point out that offshore wind energy alone would be insufficient for Taiwan's decarbonization. They advocate promulgation of a carbon tax of USD 50-100/t CO 2 to ensure a just energy transition [19].…”

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“…Based on simulation results using a computable general equilibrium model, Feng et al (2022) point out that offshore wind energy alone would be insufficient for Taiwan's decarbonization. They advocate promulgation of a carbon tax of USD 50-100/t CO 2 to ensure a just energy transition [19]. Chen (2021) analyzes the emissions-energy-economy interaction using the Lotka-Volterra model [20].…”

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A Decarbonization Roadmap for Taiwan and Its Energy Policy Implications

Lau

Tsai²

2022

Sustainability

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The objective of this paper is to propose a decarbonization roadmap for Taiwan to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 by analyzing the status of fossil and non-fossil energies, screening applicable decarbonization technologies for their effectiveness, and then proposing an energy mix for the future. The novelty of this work lies in the screening process, which considers six, instead of one or two, categories: sustainability, security, affordability, reliability, technology readiness, and technology impact. Based on this screening, a decarbonization roadmap is proposed and compared with the announced net-zero emissions (NZE) plan. The proposed roadmap requires renewable electricity to grow at an average annual growth rate of 7% between now and 2050, instead of the 10.1% required by the NZE plan, which is more achievable based on issues identified with renewable energies during our screening exercise. The proposed roadmap improves on the NZE plan in the following aspects: (1) using clean coal technologies to decarbonize existing coal-fired power plants, (2) relying more on gas than wind and solar energies to replace coal and nuclear energy for power generation, (3) accelerating carbon capture and storage (CCS) implementation, (4) delaying the phaseout of nuclear energy until 2050, and (5) using blue instead of green hydrogen to decarbonize the transport and industry sectors. Implications of this roadmap for future research and development and energy policies are also discussed.

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“…The Paris Climate Change Conference (COP21) stressed the "shared but differentiated responsibilities" principle, which is based on voluntary nationally determined contributions [ 28 ]. This is a crucial perspective for Sub-Saharan Africa, as it enables the intimate connection of development and climate policies in terms of energy transition.…”

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A mini-review of practical interventions of renewable energy for climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa in the last decade (2010–2020): implications and perspectives

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2022

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Toward green transition in the post Paris Agreement era: The case of Taiwan

Cited by 19 publications

References 26 publications

Politics of climate change mitigation in Taiwan: International isolation, developmentalism legacy, and civil society responses

Politics of climate change mitigation in Taiwan: International isolation, developmentalism legacy, and civil society responses

A Decarbonization Roadmap for Taiwan and Its Energy Policy Implications

A mini-review of practical interventions of renewable energy for climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa in the last decade (2010–2020): implications and perspectives

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