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Wen-Tien Tsai (wttsai@mail.npust.edu.tw)
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Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2017, vol. 22, issue 5, 729-742
Abstract: Abstract The objective of this paper is to offer an in-depth description of Taiwan’s success in green public procurement (GPP) efforts through legal systems and innovative measures, which were relevant to the contribution to the greenhouse gas emissions mitigation addressed in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). To be in accordance with the certified green-mark products implementation since 2002, the benefit analysis was presented to connect with the trends of related sustainability indicators, including electricity consumption, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, tap water consumption, municipal solid waste (MSW) and industrial waste (IW) recycling ratios, and renewable electricity purchase. At this period, the electricity consumption per capita slightly increased from 8.5 MWh in 2002 to 10.4 MWh in 2012. By contrast, CO2 emissions intensity remarkably decreased from 0.71 kg CO2/US$ in 2002 to 0.53 kg CO2/US$ in 2012. More consistently, the tap water consumption per capita dropped from 0.35 m3/capita-day in 2001 to 0.27 m3/capita-day in 2012. The resource recycling ratios (i.e., 40.40, and 82.40 %) from MSW and IW in 2011 have been relatively high as compared to those in 2002 (i.e., 15.55 and 72.67 %). Furthermore, the renewable electricity purchased by the Taipower (one of the nation-owned enterprises) remarkably increased from 1933.3 GWh in 2002 to 3183.9 GWh in 2012. It was positively connected with experiencing a significant progress towards green economy and CO2 emissions mitigation in Taiwan partly due to GPP from the green-mark products consumption and the renewable electricity purchase. Finally, some global adaptation and mitigation strategies for GPP and green-mark products were addressed in the paper.
Keywords: Green public procurement; Green-mark product; Resource recycling; Promotion measure; Benefit connection; Greenhouse gas emissions mitigation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2017, vol. 22, issue 5, 729-742
Abstract: Abstract The objective of this paper is to offer an in-depth description of Taiwan’s success in green public procurement (GPP) efforts through legal systems and innovative measures, which were relevant to the contribution to the greenhouse gas emissions mitigation addressed in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). To be in accordance with the certified green-mark products implementation since 2002, the benefit analysis was presented to connect with the trends of related sustainability indicators, including electricity consumption, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, tap water consumption, municipal solid waste (MSW) and industrial waste (IW) recycling ratios, and renewable electricity purchase. At this period, the electricity consumption per capita slightly increased from 8.5 MWh in 2002 to 10.4 MWh in 2012. By contrast, CO2 emissions intensity remarkably decreased from 0.71 kg CO2/US$ in 2002 to 0.53 kg CO2/US$ in 2012. More consistently, the tap water consumption per capita dropped from 0.35 m3/capita-day in 2001 to 0.27 m3/capita-day in 2012. The resource recycling ratios (i.e., 40.40, and 82.40 %) from MSW and IW in 2011 have been relatively high as compared to those in 2002 (i.e., 15.55 and 72.67 %). Furthermore, the renewable electricity purchased by the Taipower (one of the nation-owned enterprises) remarkably increased from 1933.3 GWh in 2002 to 3183.9 GWh in 2012. It was positively connected with experiencing a significant progress towards green economy and CO2 emissions mitigation in Taiwan partly due to GPP from the green-mark products consumption and the renewable electricity purchase. Finally, some global adaptation and mitigation strategies for GPP and green-mark products were addressed in the paper.
Keywords: Green public procurement; Green-mark product; Resource recycling; Promotion measure; Benefit connection; Greenhouse gas emissions mitigation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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