As the global consciousness of carbon dioxide emission reduction has attracted the government and the people of Taiwan for the past two decades, the Committee of the Carbon Reduction of the Executive Yuan and the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) of Taiwan has proposed the target of national carbon dioxide emission reduction. The concept of the carbon credit and the emission control is included in the draft of Greenhouse Gases Reduction Act. Also, at the end of this year, the carbon trading platform will be established by EPA. Therefore, the understanding of the historical allocation of the carbon dioxide emission between different sectors and industries becomes very important. This information will be provided to the government and the public to realize the effect of the carbon credit allocation.
In this paper, we compared and discussed several methods of producing the Carbon Dioxide Emission Matrix, using the data from year 2006. Then, we examined the relationships between the carbon dioxide emission and Taiwan’s macroeconomic variables. From the micro perspective, we examined the relationships between the carbon dioxide emission, the annual output values, and the GDP of individual sectors/industries; then we find out the top contributors of the carbon dioxide emission and the industries with high Carbon Dioxide Intensity. To conclude, we cannot sacrifice some important industries from the economic point of view, but we can use more “cleaner” energy products more instead of the “dirty” ones.
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