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2016 - Cities Emissions Reduction Activities
| Row number | Organisation | Account No | City Short Name | Country | C40 | Reporting Year | Emissions Reduction Sector | Emissions Reduction Activity | Anticipated emissions reduction (metric tonnes CO2e) | Action Description | City Location | Country Location |
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| 801 | Gwangyang City | 44295 | Gwangyang | South Korea | 2016 | Finance and Economic Development | Developing the green economy | (34.940697°, 127.695888°) | (35.907757°, 127.766922°) | |||
| 802 | Hoengseong County | 51104 | Hoengseong | South Korea | 2016 | Buildings | Energy efficiency/ retrofit measures | Replacement of light bulbs with low-electricity and high-efficiency model Installing solar energy generating facility/ utilizing solar energy to heating system | (37.491757°, 127.98493°) | (35.907757°, 127.766922°) | ||
| 803 | Hongcheon County | 51105 | Hongcheon | South Korea | 2016 | Mass Transit | 377382 | Establishing smart transportation system in low carbon, Eco-point system of green transportation | (37.696952°, 127.888683°) | (35.907757°, 127.766922°) | ||
| 804 | Hsinchu County Government | 54390 | Hsinchu | Taiwan | 2016 | Buildings | Carbon emissions reduction from industry | 95000 | 1. Improve factory process. 2. Monitor, manage, and control factory energy system. 3. Use inverter timing control energy to replace consumption devices. | (24.8269°, 121.0129°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | |
| 805 | Hsinchu County Government | 54390 | Hsinchu | Taiwan | 2016 | Private Transport | Transportation demand management | 35200 | 1. Enhance public transportation use. 2. Establish bike stop station. 3. Promote low-carbon tourism. 4. Promote low-carbon transportation system use and carpooling. | (24.8269°, 121.0129°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | |
| 806 | Hsinchu County Government | 54390 | Hsinchu | Taiwan | 2016 | Waste | Waste prevention policies and programs | 11000 | 1. Recycle and reduce the amount of waste. 2. Treat sewer and sewage that increase by 80%. | (24.8269°, 121.0129°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | |
| 807 | Kaohsiung City Government | 31112 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2016 | Energy Supply | Optimize traditional power/ energy production | 363000 | Kaohsiung city government has successfully promoted the Integration of resources and energy in LinHai industrial park, taking China Steel Company (CSC) as the core selling waste heat and steam to surrounding factories. In 2015, due to decreasing market in industry, compared with 18.9 million metric tonnes steam sold in 2014, only 15.8 million metric tonnes steam sold in demand, which would be equal to reducing emissions 363 thousand metric tonnes CO2e produced by burning fossil fuels. | (22.629705°, 120.343804°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | |
| 808 | Kaohsiung City Government | 31112 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2016 | Community-Scale Development | Eco-district development strategy | According to the Kaohsiung’s Environmental Maintenance and Management Autonomy Regulations, the Environmental Protection Administration or central competent authority shall declare public and private spaces for stationary sources of GHG emissions, which should set a self-management plan, setting greenhouse gas reduction targets of the process. | (22.629705°, 120.343804°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 809 | Kaohsiung City Government | 31112 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2016 | Buildings | Energy efficiency/ retrofit measures | 71808 | Kaohsiung City Environmental Protection Bureau actively promotes energy-efficiency and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of the project. According to the ISO14064 standard, the plants should be assisted by the task of inventory, reduction of counselling and log in. Since 2009, Kaohsiung City Environmental Protection Bureau has investigated all of the plant located in Kaohsiung in accordance with the ISO14064-1 and counselled over 51 plants. Furthermore, Kaohsiung City Environmental Protection Bureau has made a survey to know how many plants located in Kaohsiung is willing to cooperate with the plan of voluntary reduction of carbon reduction. It was estimated that there are reduction amount on Carbon reduction by 71,808 metric tonnes in the seven years ,which resulted from 6 times assistance on 2012. | (22.629705°, 120.343804°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | |
| 810 | Kaohsiung City Government | 31112 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2016 | Buildings | Building performance rating and reporting | The green energy environmental concept of the building: Kaohsiung Main Public Library is integrated into every floor; the design of the third to eighth floors on the southwest side is a five-meter-deep green turf landscape balcony providing a cool place to hide from the burning rays of Kaohsiung’s summer, and also allowing citizens to lie on a lawn, or read under a tree, thus providing an excellent green space for reading. | (22.629705°, 120.343804°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 811 | Municipalidad de Santiago | 60393 | Santiago | Chile | 2016 | Waste | Recyclables and organics separation from other waste | (-33.44889°, -70.669265°) | (-35.675147°, -71.542969°) | |||
| 812 | Kaohsiung City Government | 31112 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2016 | Buildings | Energy efficiency/ retrofit measures | 4366.3 | Carbon Reduction Technique Foundation’s counselling founded on 2014 aims to provide both on diagnosis, analysis on the energy usage of general plants’ production or relevant facility and on assistance for factory owners to set up an improvement to realize the practically using situation ,which can be seen as a reference of level-up efficiency and up-graded information. Take the example on 2015, if cooperated with the project, five plants on the plan were improved their overall carbon reduction benefits, saving total energy consumption of 18,560,000 degrees of the total electrify amount and 68.5 million cubic meters of natural gas per year, saving energy costs total 54.4 million NTD, representing a decrease of approximately 9,803 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per year. | (22.629705°, 120.343804°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | |
| 813 | Kaohsiung City Government | 31112 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2016 | Buildings | Building codes and standards | In order to promote green building for fulfilling the vision of low-carbon city, Kaohsiung City government impletented Green Building autonomous regulations in Jun., 2012 and revised in Jan., 2013. It forces that new building construction and old building with different scales; need to fulfil certain levels of green building standards. In regulations, it defines different types of buildings and related standards to be followed, such as solar system, water-saving devices and greening areas. | (22.629705°, 120.343804°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 814 | Kaohsiung City Government | 31112 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2016 | Community-Scale Development | Green space and/ or biodiversity preservation and expansion | 6962 | Since 1st July, 1995, the EPA commenced promoting the program called "Air quality purifying areas" to build green spaces to make better air quality. And Kaohsiung City also strongly supported and promoted this plan, Up to 2015, green space reached to 562 places, 228.3 ha in public place. 5,250.7 GHG reduction is anticipated per year. | (22.629705°, 120.343804°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | |
| 815 | Kaohsiung City Government | 31112 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2016 | Buildings | On-site renewable energy generation | Kaohsiung City actively undergoes amending construction related regulations to promote solar photovoltaic system. According to 2015 analysis, city's application occupied 13.78% of total applicants, and with 28.486 MW capacity , creating 2.8 billion benefit, total capacity occupied 8.81% in whole country. This year, 2016, city will continuously make compensation for encouraging setting up system, each subsidy is limited NT$300,000(US$9,375). | (22.629705°, 120.343804°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 816 | Kaohsiung City Government | 31112 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2016 | Buildings | Building performance rating and reporting | Kaohsiung city government provides subsidy to private buildings to improve its energy efficiency. The subsidy covers LED lights, water-saving taps and is up to NT$20000 (USD$ 666). | (22.629705°, 120.343804°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 817 | Kaohsiung City Government | 31112 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2016 | Private Transport | Infrastructure for non motorized transport | Kaohsiung continuously set up new public bike rental stations. Until 2015, 183 stations have been set up, which can provide 220 ,000 citizens to use each month, and totally reduce 2,206 metric tonnes CO2e emissions. | (22.629705°, 120.343804°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 818 | Kaohsiung City Government | 31112 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2016 | Mass Transit | Improve bus infrastructure, services, and operations | Adding shuttle buses for KMRT (Kaohsiung Metro Rapid Transit) users, and providing privilege for people transferring between KMRT and public buses, aiming to double public transportation users. | (22.629705°, 120.343804°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 819 | Kaohsiung City Government | 31112 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2016 | Mass Transit | Improve rail, metro, and tram infrastructure, services and operations | Kaohsiung is building a light rail system. The project with 22.1 km long, includes two stages. So far, the first stage is completed, and temporally operated and commenced on 16th October, 2015, while the whole stage would be operated in 2019. | (22.629705°, 120.343804°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 820 | Kaohsiung City Government | 31112 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2016 | Private Transport | Improve fuel economy and reduce CO2 from motorized vehicles | The city government provides subsidies to replace two-stroke scooters with electronic scooters. The maximum subsidy is NT$ 20,500 (USD$ 640). After analying data base (until February, 2016), replaced stroke scooters number is over 345,181, and more than 6,841 electronic scooters has been registered. More green transportation used, less pollution and GHG emissions will be made, which will bring benefit to our environment. | (22.629705°, 120.343804°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 821 | Kaohsiung City Government | 31112 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2016 | Community-Scale Development | Green space and/ or biodiversity preservation and expansion | Kaohsiung city government puts lots of efforts in the issue of wetland conservation because of its abilities of carbon fixing, unban flood detention, and ecological and recreational value. Until 2015, the city has successfully created 21 wetland parks in Kaohsiung with total area about 986 ha. | (22.629705°, 120.343804°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 822 | Kaohsiung City Government | 31112 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2016 | Community-Scale Development | Green space and/ or biodiversity preservation and expansion | Many actions have been taken between 2005 and 2009 to advocate green campus, and the impressive results are in 6 aspects including illumination, energy conservation, planting, water conservation, recycling and thermal insulation. | (22.629705°, 120.343804°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 823 | Kaohsiung City Government | 31112 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2016 | Finance and Economic Development | Developing the green economy | In order to stimulate the development of green economy in Kaohsiung, the city government promotes goods with green labels, including energy-saving label and water-saving label, to citizens. According to analysis in 2015, total green procurement number is NT$ 1,504,710,000 (USD$ 50,157,000) including 204 units (companies, schools and public groups). And for Kaohsiung City government, total green procurement is NT$ 326,853,413 (USD$ 10,214,169). | (22.629705°, 120.343804°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 824 | Pingtung County Government | 57347 | Pingtung | Taiwan | 2016 | Private Transport | Infrastructure for non motorized transport | By creating Bike Route Guideline Project, four core areas are planned to connect landscapes of country road and train stations. | (22.551976°, 120.54876°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 825 | Kaohsiung City Government | 31112 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2016 | Buildings | Building codes and standards | In response to the impact of climate change and the advent of an aging society, Kaohsiung city government imposed Kaohsiung house designing and feedback project in September,2014. The estimation base is 20% of 5829 buildings constructed in 2013: The setting of three-dimensional green roof increases the total green area of 11 football fields, and total power generation is about 18 National Stadiums. All green building practices create 16,619 metric tonnes carbon reduction, equivalent to about 1.66 million trees planted in carbon sequestration. | (22.629705°, 120.343804°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 826 | Mokpo City | 48534 | Mokpo | South Korea | 2016 | Buildings | Carbon emissions reduction from industry | (34.811835°, 126.392166°) | (35.907757°, 127.766922°) | |||
| 827 | Mokpo City | 48534 | Mokpo | South Korea | 2016 | Mass Transit | Smart public transport | (34.811835°, 126.392166°) | (35.907757°, 127.766922°) | |||
| 828 | Mokpo City | 48534 | Mokpo | South Korea | 2016 | Outdoor Lighting | Smart lighting | (34.811835°, 126.392166°) | (35.907757°, 127.766922°) | |||
| 829 | New Taipei City Government | 56276 | New Taipei | Taiwan | 2016 | Buildings | Energy efficiency/ retrofit measures | Low-carbon society / Facilities replacements in school | (25.0111°, 121.4458°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 830 | New Taipei City Government | 56276 | New Taipei | Taiwan | 2016 | Community-Scale Development | Building standards | Green building standards | (25.0111°, 121.4458°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 831 | New Taipei City Government | 56276 | New Taipei | Taiwan | 2016 | Community-Scale Development | Green space and/ or biodiversity preservation and expansion | Green space | (25.0111°, 121.4458°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 832 | New Taipei City Government | 56276 | New Taipei | Taiwan | 2016 | Community-Scale Development | Urban agriculture | Roof agriculture | (25.0111°, 121.4458°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 833 | New Taipei City Government | 56276 | New Taipei | Taiwan | 2016 | Finance and Economic Development | Instruments to fund low carbon projects | Subsidy regulation of low carbon society | (25.0111°, 121.4458°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 834 | New Taipei City Government | 56276 | New Taipei | Taiwan | 2016 | Outdoor Lighting | LED / CFL / other luminaire technologies | streetlamp replacements | (25.0111°, 121.4458°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 835 | New Taipei City Government | 56276 | New Taipei | Taiwan | 2016 | Mass Transit | Improve rail, metro, and tram infrastructure, services and operations | Taipei Metro constructions | (25.0111°, 121.4458°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 836 | New Taipei City Government | 56276 | New Taipei | Taiwan | 2016 | Private Transport | Transportation demand management | Carpool | (25.0111°, 121.4458°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 837 | New Taipei City Government | 56276 | New Taipei | Taiwan | 2016 | Waste | Landfill management | Biogas power generation | (25.0111°, 121.4458°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 838 | Pingtung County Government | 57347 | Pingtung | Taiwan | 2016 | Buildings | On-site renewable energy generation | 52807.4 | Solar power generation equipments were established in public sector and school roof by promoting wealthy school project and photovoltaic school project. | (22.551976°, 120.54876°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | |
| 839 | Pingtung County Government | 57347 | Pingtung | Taiwan | 2016 | Community-Scale Development | Eco-district development strategy | Green Building Service Team was established to plan low-carbon new communities in accordance with urban renewable plan. So far, 28 building award Green Building Label and 100 building award candidate marks. | (22.551976°, 120.54876°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 840 | Pingtung County Government | 57347 | Pingtung | Taiwan | 2016 | Community-Scale Development | Eco-district development strategy | Low-Carbon Sustainable Homeland Project was executed in accordance with national low-carbon strategy, ex, six dimensions of low-carbon sustainable action | (22.551976°, 120.54876°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 841 | Pingtung County Government | 57347 | Pingtung | Taiwan | 2016 | Community-Scale Development | Green space and/ or biodiversity preservation and expansion | Promoting “Tourism Equipment Construction Project”, improving the current landscape equipment and increasing the greening areas. | (22.551976°, 120.54876°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 842 | Pingtung County Government | 57347 | Pingtung | Taiwan | 2016 | Community-Scale Development | Green space and/ or biodiversity preservation and expansion | 677896.5 | Promoting afforestation to decrease the carbon emission. Afforestation area is over 8,666 ha on the plane and mountain. Government provides compensation to aborigines to restrict the deforestation. | (22.551976°, 120.54876°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | |
| 843 | Pingtung County Government | 57347 | Pingtung | Taiwan | 2016 | Energy Supply | Smart grid | Pingtung County cooperates with IBM to build the Smart City. Hope to promote the smart grid project with IBM’s cutting-edge technology and international experience. | (22.551976°, 120.54876°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 844 | Pingtung County Government | 57347 | Pingtung | Taiwan | 2016 | Finance and Economic Development | Developing the green economy | Pingtung County Government integrates the resource and condition to attract foreign and domestic green investment. Green Energy Settlement includes Pingtung export zone, Liukuaicuo green industry park and Linbian industry demonstrative area. | (22.551976°, 120.54876°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 845 | Pingtung County Government | 57347 | Pingtung | Taiwan | 2016 | Mass Transit | Improve fuel economy and reduce CO2 from bus and/or light rail | Set the Taiwan’s first 100% low-carbon transportation system, Kenting Express, combined with electric vehicles and charging system. | (22.551976°, 120.54876°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 846 | Pingtung County Government | 57347 | Pingtung | Taiwan | 2016 | Outdoor Lighting | LED / CFL / other luminaire technologies | 317.58 | Pingtung County changes high power consumption lights to LED high efficiency lights. | (22.551976°, 120.54876°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | |
| 847 | Pingtung County Government | 57347 | Pingtung | Taiwan | 2016 | Private Transport | Infrastructure for non motorized transport | In densely populated area, the walking area is established to reach the outcome of carbon reduction by restrict the entrance of transportation | (22.551976°, 120.54876°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 848 | Pingtung County Government | 57347 | Pingtung | Taiwan | 2016 | Waste | Recycling or composting collections and/or facilities | 1226.06 | Set the first self-government ordinances legislated by local government in Taiwan. To decrease live farming pollution, recycle bio-energy and transform the high pollution industry to green industry. | (22.551976°, 120.54876°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | |
| 849 | Pingtung County Government | 57347 | Pingtung | Taiwan | 2016 | Waste | Recycling or composting collections and/or facilities | Promoting actively eco-industrial systems, such as the reuse of agriculture waste, composting and forestry waste. | (22.551976°, 120.54876°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) | ||
| 850 | Pingtung County Government | 57347 | Pingtung | Taiwan | 2016 | Water | Wastewater to energy initiatives | Wetland purification creates biodiversity. Promote wetland protection, ecological pool action plan and wetland activation to increase the biodiversity and have environmental education. | (22.551976°, 120.54876°) | (23.69781°, 120.960515°) |
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In 2016, over 3,000 city-wide mitigation actions were disclosed. Cities are taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in cities. Activities are tagged by sector and cities provide detailed descriptions of each activity. Some cities also provide estimates of the total anticipated lifetime emissions that will be reduced from each activity.
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