Written by: Optoelectronics Industry Sustainability Manager/Huang Tingrong Category:ESG News Image source: shutterstock Date: 2023-09-25
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Sustainability has become a key issue, affecting government policies, business operations and personal lives. Therefore, the topics selected by sustainability managers will help readers better understand the importance of sustainability issues and provide practical suggestions to achieve personal and organizational sustainability goals, "Today's Weekly ESG Sustainability Taiwan x Sustainability "Continued Manager" This week's must-read article selection cooperation plan will be continuously updated to ensure that readers get the latest and most valuable information, and to stimulate more discussions and actions to promote the realization of sustainable development.
"Domestic News"
Taiwan’s carbon fee has yet to set a clear price. Scholars use scientific methods to estimate that the tax will start at least NT$500 per ton.
Compared with the vigorous discussions on carbon fees and carbon tariffs internationally, Taiwan's carbon fee standards have not yet been announced. The climate law was announced in February 2023, but there is no news about the carbon fee law, causing the industry to encounter many confusions and challenges when promoting carbon pricing. Environmental groups and scholars jointly held a press conference, calling on the Ministry of Environment to finalize the carbon fee rate by the end of this year. In 2020, a foreign research institute was commissioned to recommend a carbon fee price of 300 yuan per ton, which completely fails to reflect the external cost of carbon emissions.
According to research by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the external cost of carbon emissions per ton is US$190, or about NT$5,800. Therefore, scholar groups have jointly called for the starting price of China's carbon fee to be set at NT$500 per ton and increase year by year. Achieve NT$3,000 per ton in 2030.
Detailed article content:Carbon fee will be levied in 2025! The Minister of Environment is worried about "green inflation" and the environmental group calls for an increase from 500 yuan per ton in Singapore to 3,000 yuan per ton in 2030.
A war breaks out across Taiwan for companies to grab green-collar talent! Greenpeace: Calls on the government to strengthen professional functional training for green collar workers
It is imperative for Taiwan to promote net-zero emissions by 2050, but green-collar talent panic frequently occurs! Greenpeace recently released the report "Towards Net Zero: Reversing the "Panic" of Taiwan's Green-Collar Talents". Research shows that nearly 70% of young people are worried about their lack of professional skills and the large gap between learning and application. However, when they understand the relevant work content of green-collar jobs, After the definition, nearly 90% expressed their willingness to devote themselves to functional training. Due to insufficient resources, small and medium-sized enterprises are too slow to cultivate green-collar talents.
Moreover, there are many ESG certification courses on the market, and it is difficult for potential talents to judge the practicality and effectiveness of the courses. In the absence of international standard certification, the quality of courses is uneven. It is urgent to establish specific course certification standards to ensure that substantial green benefits can be obtained after the courses. Lead functions.
Today's Weekly Supplement |
The Pingtung Mingyang factory explosion teaches companies a lesson: the importance of chemical management to ESG, is GRI403 done right?
The Pingtung factory of Mingyang International Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as: Mingyang International), a leading golf contract manufacturer, exploded one after another, killing at least four firefighters. It is suspected that the fire was ignited by peroxide in the factory. According to the provisions of the Fire Protection Law, the factory The management authority should provide fire control personnel, chemical types, quantities, location plans, and necessary information for fire rescue. They must also assign dedicated personnel to assist on site. Whether Mingyang will implement this remains to be clarified.
Studies estimate that chemical production has increased 50-fold since 1950, and by 2050 this number is expected to grow several times again. Are we really ready for the explosive growth of chemicals?
The field of CSR is so vast that we can use ESG as a principle. It also extends to EHS regulations related to occupational safety and environmental safety, as well as the GRI as an ESG framework. Among them, there are many regulations related to chemical management in GRI403 occupational health and safety, such as 403-2: Hazard identification, risk assessment and accident investigation, 403-7: Prevention and reduction of occupational health and safety of those directly related to the enterprise impact.
Detailed article content:The Pingtung Mingyang factory explosion teaches companies a lesson: the importance of chemical management to ESG, is GRI403 done right?
"International News"
Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD) officially announced the first version of the guidelines, based on the TCFD framework, with a core focus on biodiversity
After more than a year of planning and testing, the global standard "Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)" finally released the official version 1.0 in September. The framework will be determined to be based on the TCFD framework that is currently familiar to enterprises, and will also cooperate with ISSB. The content of the framework will cover three major aspects, including the four-stage methodology of natural definition and basic concepts, core disclosure and evaluation.
In the definition and basic concepts of nature, TNFD defines four natural areas, such as land, ocean, fresh water, and atmosphere; and the four core framework is still used in the core disclosure; after identifying natural risks and opportunities, enterprises should use "LEAP" Position, evaluate, evaluate, prepare, disclose nature-related information for nature assessment methodology, and continue to discuss and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
Detailed article content:A must-read for sustainable managers” Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is officially announced! Based on the TCFD framework, focusing on biodiversity first, understand the four major disclosure cores in one article
The EU Parliament passed new regulations on sustainable aviation, aiming to provide 70% of sustainable fuel for flights taking off from EU airports by 2050.
The use of sustainable aviation fuel has been discussed internationally for many years. However, given the different standards for calculating the carbon footprint of flights in the market, greenwashing controversies have frequently occurred. Therefore, the European Parliament passed new regulations in September, which will gradually increase the proportion of sustainable aviation fuels and include specifications for biomass fuels such as synthetic fuels, agriculture or forestry, and secondary wastes in the regulations.The ultimate goal is that by 2050, the proportion of sustainable fuel used by flights taking off from EU airports must reach 70%.
at the same time,The European Union will officially launch an aviation carbon emission label starting in 2025, marking each passenger's flight carbon footprint and carbon emissions per kilometer, and providing passengers with a basis for choosing sustainable flights.
The United Nations Climate Ambition Summit was recently held in New York. Leaders of China, the United States, Britain and France who were not taking active actions were "absent"
The recent United Nations Climate Ambition Summit (Climate Ambition Summit) has just begun. United Nations Secretary-General Guterres announced before the meeting that countries that are passive in reducing carbon emissions will not be invited to speak. Therefore, leaders from China, the United States, Britain, France and other countries did not appear.
During the meeting, Guterres strongly criticized fossil fuel interest groups for directly dragging down the carbon reduction schedule. Only national leaders who can propose innovative and concrete actions can speak and explain relevant policy plans throughout the summit. Countries affected by the climate crisis have expressed the hope that through financial reforms, transaction taxes can be levied on high-carbon-emitting industries such as petrochemicals, aviation and shipping to help deplete climate funds.
Detailed article content:"The door to hell is open!" The top five carbon-emitting countries were absent from the Climate Ambition Summit, and the governor of California was invited to speak: sue the world's five major oil giants
Today’s Weekly ESG Sustainability Taiwan
Huang Tingrong is involved in theater, marketing, and sustainability across fields, and is currently a sustainability manager in the optoelectronics industry. As a follower of existentialism, I hope to find something in life that I want to defend for the rest of my life, so "sustainability" comes with the light. In the face of sustainability, there is no need for a long learning experience. As long as you practice bravely, everyone can become a warm sun that illuminates each other and the world. We sincerely welcome you to join the ranks of sustainability.
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