Eco-city Blueprint

To build a low-carbon city requires the cooperation of community residents. In order to establish a carbon-saving living environment, Taipei City has successfully promoted 5 "low-carbon communities." Each community has worked hard for a long period of time and the public in the community have a high degree of willingness and execution to cooperate on energy saving and carbon reduction to promote eco-greening in the community, promote environmental education, set up a solar power generation system, a rainwater recycling system, green roof, low carbon and resource recovery and energy conservation facilities. If Taipei City wants to become a low-carbon city in the future, the public participation is absolutely important. The government must set aside the old thinking of the past and make direct plans for the public and communicate and coordinate with the public, and adopt opinions from the public, so as to unite the consensus on the development of a low-carbon city. We believe that the participation of the public will enhance the operational effectiveness of low-carbon cities and lead to unexpected environmental protection ideas. At present, only five communities in Taipei have reached the standard of a low-carbon community. We hope that the Taipei city government will step up efforts to complete it in other communities as soon as possible so as to achieve the ecological blueprint of a complete "People green life circle."