Strategies for Taiwan’S Industrial Structure Adjustment to Achieve Developed Countries in Considering Co2 and Gdp Levels

In order to cope with the potential threatens caused by climate change. The reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions especially from fossil fuels is a top priority in curbing global warming. Taiwan’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution target is to achieve a 50% reduction below the business as usual (BAU) greenhouse gas (GHG) emission level by 2030, which is equivalent to a reduction of emission by 20% below the 2005 level. However, industrial is the largest energy use sector in Taiwan, accounting for 34.3% of the total final energy consumption and emitting 49.78% of total CO2 emissions in 2017. Especially, six high energy-consuming industries (basic metal, non-metallic mineral products, paper and pulp, textile wearing apparel, and chemical material, and electrical machinery industry) contribute about 80% of industrial energy consumption and 81.9% of industrial CO2 emission. In order to reach Taiwan’s GHG reduction target in 2030, it is necessary to set the annual target by years. A multi-objective optimization model is proposed to estimate the GDP and CO2 emission of Taiwan’s high energy-consuming industries to adjust Taiwan’s industrial structure for the period of 2019-2030. It is likely to reach the economic level of developed countries and control Taiwan’s CO2 emission to meet the desired goal.

Project ID:PB10901-3027
External Project ID:MOST108-2410-H182-015-MY2