None of us is considered an outsider when it comes to facing global climate change. Taiwan’s agriculture-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounted for as low as 2.1% of the country’s total GHG emission. Countries around the world successively made commitments and taken actions towards the target of achieving "Net-Zero Emissions by 2050." In 2022, a declaration was made indicating the strong determination of the agriculture sector to reach the goal of net-zero emissions by 2040. In response to the trends of climate change and environmental sustainability, the Council of Agriculture (COA) underwent an organizational restructuring and was elevated to the status of the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) on August 1st, 2023. Notably, a significant development was the establishment of the "Department of Resources Sustainability " as the authority to formulate climate change adaptation and net-zero emissions policy. Tens of conferences had been held for stakeholders from various agriculture sectors to collect opinions and suggestions dealing with climate-related crisis, which contributed to the formulation of the roadmap to Net-Zero Emissions in the agriculture sector. The roadmap consists of four pillars: (1) reducing carbon emissions, (2) enhancing carbon sinks, (3) encouraging circular agriculture and (4) promoting green trend. With an estimate of 7,630 kt CO2-e GHG reduction, and 6,159 kt CO2-e carbon sink, MOA declared confidently that the net-zero emissions in the agricultural sector will be targeted by 2040, surpassing the global schedule. The country will invest a total of more than NT$3 billion (about US$93.8 million) in the following 4 years to support the measures covered by the strategies. Talent training and experience exchanging programs are conducted for boosting the ability and capacity for reaching the goal of net-zero emissions.
Keywords: global climate change, GHG emissions, carbon sink, and net-zero emissions
None of us is considered an outsider when it comes to facing global climate change. Taiwan’s agriculture-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounted for as low as 2.1% of the country’s total GHG emission. Countries around the world successively made commitments and taken actions towards the target of achieving "Net-Zero Emissions by 2050." In 2022, a declaration was made indicating the strong determination of the agriculture sector to reach the goal of net-zero emissions by 2040. In response to the trends of climate change and environmental sustainability, the Council of Agriculture (COA) underwent an organizational restructuring and was elevated to the status of the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) on August 1st, 2023. Notably, a significant development was the establishment of the "Department of Resources Sustainability " as the authority to formulate climate change adaptation and net-zero emissions policy. Tens of conferences had been held for stakeholders from various agriculture sectors to collect opinions and suggestions dealing with climate-related crisis, which contributed to the formulation of the roadmap to Net-Zero Emissions in the agriculture sector. The roadmap consists of four pillars: (1) reducing carbon emissions, (2) enhancing carbon sinks, (3) encouraging circular agriculture and (4) promoting green trend. With an estimate of 7,630 kt CO2-e GHG reduction, and 6,159 kt CO2-e carbon sink, MOA declared confidently that the net-zero emissions in the agricultural sector will be targeted by 2040, surpassing the global schedule. The country will invest a total of more than NT$3 billion (about US$93.8 million) in the following 4 years to support the measures covered by the strategies. Talent training and experience exchanging programs are conducted for boosting the ability and capacity for reaching the goal of net-zero emissions.
Keywords: global climate change, GHG emissions, carbon sink, and net-zero emissions