Local manufacturers, especially those in the supply chains of Apple and Google, are seeking new and better ways to offset carbon emissions to comply with stricter regulations on air pollutants.
Companies have adopted different approaches to conserve energy and reduce their carbon footprint, such as constructing smart buildings and using lights-out manufacturing, or planting trees to offset carbon emissions.
An environmental conservation team was established to plant trees and create environments friendly to algae, coral, seagrass and wetlands plants, Chou said, adding that a sea turtle conservation center would also be created.
Following Sinyi’s move, some local manufacturers have begun scouting for similar areas to capture carbon, as they plan ahead for the coming carbon credit trade.
By the end of the year, Taiwan’s installed solar energy capacity is expected to reach 7 gigawatts , less than half of the government’s 20GW target by 2025.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co , the world’s biggest contract chipmaker and a major supplier to Apple, has secured 99 percent of green energy certificates available since the nation’s first green energy trading platform was created last year.
As most local manufacturers are small and medium-sized businesses, they do not have the resources and knowledge to source green energy or carbon credits, not to mention any measures to cope with an imminent carbon border tax by the EU.
Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi on Monday attempted to rewrite the narrative on cross-strait tensions by placing the blame on the US and calling Taiwan a “wanderer who will eventually come home.” The US and other countries were trying to use Taiwan as a “chess piece” to upset the “status quo” in Beijing’s relations with Taipei, a Reuters report cited Wang as saying.
In the business world, using the Boston Consulting Group matrix, a company or corporation might aid its growth and power by purchasing other select companies to add to its portfolio.
A contortion of reality, if expressed frequently by figures of authority, can often be accepted as truth.
Since Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega returned to power at the end of 2006, he has managed to hold on to the presidency by amending the constitution to allow the president to be re-elected without restrictions.