Visualizing Taiwan's Formosa Plastics

Schütz, Tim

doi:10.1145/3470484

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“…In recent years, Taiwan has changed from a pollution recipient to a pollution exporter. The Formosa Plastics Group, one of the world's largest petrochemical conglomerates, has stirred up transnational activism in Taiwan, Vietnam, and Louisiana in the United States (Fan et al, 2022; Schütz, 2021). Taiwanese state and environmental NGOs are also going global, a phenomenon of breakingthrough international isolation that some scholars call “Northernization” (Wu & Chien, 2022).…”

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Politics of climate change mitigation in Taiwan: International isolation, developmentalism legacy, and civil society responses

Liu

Chao

2023

WIREs Climate Change

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This focus review summarizes climate politics in Taiwan at the global, the national, and the local level. The article begins with an introduction to Taiwan's emission profile, major actors, and recent policy development. At the global level, Taiwan's unique international status has limited its responses to climate change as mostly gesture policies, but recently corporate climate actions bloomed due to pressures from the supply chains. At the national level, Taiwan's developmental state legacy has locked the country in a “high‐carbon regime” and struggled with the debate on nuclear power. Finally, at the local level, Taiwan seeks to facilitate climate actions with the principle of energy democracy, yet public participation still falls short and local land use conflicts will present enormous challenges. The article ends with a discussion on current knowledge gaps and invites future research to put Taiwan into comparative perspectives. This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance > National Climate Change Policy

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Section: Politics Of Climate Change In Taiwanmentioning

confidence: 99%