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CPC Corporation, Taiwan
which shows that CPC has spared no effort in ecological conservation. It also shows that cooperation with environmental protection organizations has made fruitful conservation achievements.
Taiwan’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Management Act was formally promulgated on July 1, 2015 with the goal of reducing national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per year to no more than 50% of the 2005 level by 2050. Since 2005, CPC has calculated its greenhouse gas inventory, actively implemented its energy saving carbon emission reduction plan, and set targets and timelines of carbon emission reduction for its existing plants, imposed reduction measures according to the plan with use of clean fuel, clean production, equipment efficiency improvement, energy saving and waste reduction, etc., In recent years, we have used the latest technology to effectively improve the energy efficiency of our plants. As a result, the company’s reduction in greenhouse emissions from 2005 to 2019, which was verified by a third-party, exceeded 25%. In addition, CPC has already implemented electricity conservation in its offices according to the guidelines on Power usage effectiveness management plan for government agencies and schools laid down by the Executive Yuan, saving 8.1% electricity in 2020 compared with 2019, according to the statistics of the
Ministry of Economic Affairs. Our offices of monitored units had switched to all-LED lighting by September, 2020. In response to the risk incurred by climate change, the company has participated in the climate change adaptation strategy and guidance Program for the energy sector; by the end of 2020, climate risk assessments and reports of the 24 plants had been completed.
CPC’s air pollutants come mainly from its oil refineries and petrochemical plants. The pollutants include total suspend particulate (TSP), sulfur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), etc. The tables below show the air pollution emissions of the oil refineries and the petrochemical plants. There has been a fall of TSP, NOx and VOCs. The Flue Gas quality is also superior to the national standard, indicating that the measures have an effective outcome.
Creating an environmentally friendly business and pursuing a position as benchmark for environmentally friendly oil products
Since the enactment of the Environmental Education Act in 2011, CPC has actively promoted