2024-10-17
On 12 September, TCAN launched our Just Transition Outlook in Taiwan: Innovating Governance and Fostering a Support System policy report. As the first policy report focusing on just transition in Taiwan, we examined the current state of just transition policy and governance planning and proposed a total of 11 policy recommendations in the areas of “governance innovation”, “industrial transformation”, and “support system”. Our researcher, Yang Pei-wei, introduced the 11 recommendations and the local contexts and international best practices from which we drew them. Overall, while the Taiwanese government has made significant progress in building the governance and legislative frameworks over the past few years, much remains to be done in strengthening stakeholder engagement, identifying transition impact hotspots, and incorporating administrative resources in social protection, public health, green finance, carbon pricing, etc. to better align capital and resources with a healthy, decarbonised, and empowering future. For instance, a recent study from […]
2024-09-12
The past three years have seen a proliferation of “just transition” (JT) in Taiwan’s climate policy-making circles. The government’s 12 Key Strategies in Transformation toward Net-Zero Emissions, announced in December 2022, and the updated Climate Change Response Act Parliament passed in January 2023 both featured JT-specific provisions and action plans. Such is the result of years of civil society advocacy and engagement, making Taiwan one of the leading countries worldwide that have defined JT as a guiding principle in their framework laws on climate change. With the policy and legislative frameworks for JT more or less in place, the task now lies in ensuring their robust implementation: addressing and mitigating any negative impacts the transition to a net-zero society may bring, directing funding and resources to workers and communities whose livelihoods the transition hits, and making sure that the technologies and economic activities we transition into do not exacerbate existing […]
2023-06-30
Development of Just Transition Policies under a Global Climate Regime Author：Chia-Wei Chao (Research Director, Taiwan Climate Action Network), Pei-Wei Yang (Research Assistant, Taiwan Climate Action Network) Abstract： With countries pledging to achieve net-zero emissions and accelerate the phasing-out of fossil fuels, workers and local economies in related industries will face significant changes. To proactively address such impacts and provide support through vocational training and local development planning, the United Nations has increased its focus on a just transition in the negotiation system of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Based on the author’s observations at COP27, this article outlines the implementation plan for the just transition work program under the UN system and the progress of the Just Energy Transition Partnership, and examines Taiwan’s current policies on just transition. Keywords Just Transition, UNFCCC, Just Energy Transition Partnership Original webpage： Link
