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• Carbon pricing options for Taiwan

  Annual greenhouse gas emissions in Taiwan reached a record high in 2017. Although estimates indicate that annual emissions have fallen since then, stronger action is needed for Taiwan to reach its 2050

  • 15/12/2020

  • Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
  • • Carbon Market
    • Green House Gases
    • Taiwan
    • Emissions Trading
    • Carbon Dioxide

• TAIWAN

  The state-run Chinese Petroleum Corporation of Taiwan said it would gradually phase out its premium gasoline and replace it with 98-octane unleaded gasoline in 2000 to help reduce

  • 14/06/1999

  • Down To Earth
  • • Pollution Control
    • Petrol
    • Petrochemical Industry
    • Taiwan

• TAIWAN

  Greenpeace activists are protesting against the government's decision to ship 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste to famine hit North Korea. They say the move is irresponsible and immoral

  • 30/10/1997

  • Down To Earth
  • • Hazardous Products
    • North Korea
    • Taiwan

• Taiwan

  Recently, Green-peace International, together with a hired British nuclear engineer, John Large, inspected a nuclear dump in Taiwan. Resembling a neatly tended corporate campus with only a sign in

  • 14/08/1997

  • Down To Earth
  • • Nuclear Wastes
    • Taiwan
• 

  TAIWAN

  The Taiwanese government has earned the wrath of the Yami people residing in the Orchid Islands - 62 km east of the country's southern tip - for dumping of nuclear waste for 14 long years by the

  • 30/03/1997

  • Down To Earth
  • • Landfill
    • Nuclear Wastes
    • Taiwan

• Waste of a barter

  Desperate North Korea is ready to accept atomic waste from Taiwan

  • 30/03/1997

  • Down To Earth
  • • Landfill
    • Nuclear Wastes
    • North Korea
    • South Korea
    • Taiwan

• MONEYMAKERS

  saving stitches: India will have the first indigenously-produced bio-adhesives for suture-less surgery. Nectar Laboratories Ltd, based near Hyderabad, is all set to manufacture these adhesives and

  • 30/10/1996

  • Down To Earth
  • • China
    • Taiwan
    • Computers
• 

  TAIWAN

  Even as the mad cow mayhem in Europe has begun subsiding, another animal disease row is simmering in this country. Hog cholera is threatening Taiwan's US $43 billion pork industry as

  • 14/07/1996

  • Down To Earth
  • • Animal Diseases
    • Pigs
    • Cholera
    • Taiwan

• Moneymakers

  TREMOR SENSORS: Last year's earthquake in Kobe, Japan, has triggered off a spate of earthquake-related lighting equipments. An emergency fight by Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. Japan's largest

  • 29/04/1996

  • Down To Earth
  • • Taiwan
    • Computers

• TAIWAN

  Taiwan's antinuclear activists were recent- ly at their vociferous best. On April 24, 100-odd activists bombed the Taiwan Power Company's building with eggs. The state-run company plans to

  • 30/05/1995

  • Down To Earth
  • • Nuclear Power
    • Taiwan
• 

  Betel back in Taiwan

  Taiwan may finally let down its guard on betel nut imports. The country's Agriculture Ministry has plans to lift a decades-old import ban on what has come to be known as "Taiwanese chewing gum" in

  • 14/12/1994

  • Down To Earth
  • • Cash Crops
    • Taiwan