Taiwan, China's carbon reduction performance lags behind the rest of China? Environmental Protection Administration cries foul over international report

The Climate Change Performance Index, an international assessment of countries' carbon-reduction efforts, was released yesterday (the 8th), and our country ranked sixth from the bottom, falling behind China. In response, the Environmental Protection Administration explained that the scoring for forest damage was "halved for unknown reasons," and that the policy pledges made during the year and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Management Act were not included, so the index cannot reflect Taiwan's efforts on carbon reduction.

Scholars, however, said bluntly that the scoring for forest damage is not high, and that the key lies in changing our country's energy mix and promoting renewable energy, which is what would help raise our country's score and ranking.

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Germanwatch and Climate Action Network Europe publish the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) every December. The index compares countries' greenhouse gas emission levels, renewable energy, energy efficiency, climate policy and sector-by-sector carbon dioxide trends from fuel combustion, and is an important international indicator for assessing countries' carbon-reduction efforts.

Among the 58 countries calculated this year, our country ranked 52nd, and scored only 45.45 points out of a possible 100; although both the ranking and the score improved slightly from the past, the index still listed it as a country whose carbon-reduction efforts are "Very Poor."