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Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection In order to fulfill its corporate responsibility, CPC has long been dedicated to a variety of environmental protection efforts, including the improving: wastewater disposal; air pollution; waste treatment, and soil and groundwater contamination; the implementation of environmental protection policies; the active prevention of pollution; strengthening the control of the sources of pollution; the utilization of low pollution production processes; and the latest pollution control facilities. The best available control technology (BACT) and equipment are used to reduce pollution that may be caused by production, as well as transportation and storage processes, in its new projects. Ecological protection and implementation of environment policies In recent years, CPC has further deepened its commitment to ecologically beneficial measures that include improving the quality of its petroleum products, reducing energy consumption and waste, and adapting to climate change. In order to prevent pollution, energy and waste reduction, and help create a sustainable environment, CPC has invested more than NT$50 billion in its environmental protection efforts since 1989. Since 1995, all of the Company’s business units introduced the ISO 14001 standard of environmental management system. As of the end of 2021, 24 units had received official certification. In response to the global trend, CPC has deployed an environmental accounting system in 2004 to improve its environment protection performance. In all its development projects, CPC has followed through on commitments written into the respective environmental impact assessment (EIA), introducing the appropriate environmental protection measures in response to the potential risks posed by specific development undertakings, maintaining comprehensive monitoring systems designed to protect environmental quality and biological diversity around its facilities, and achieving standards in the quality of their atmospheric emissions higher than those stipulated in current national environmental protection regulations, in order to improve its environment protection performance. With regard to ecology preservation, CPC set up the Guantang Industrial Park (Port) Ecological Preservation Committee on November 7, 2018 for consultation and review of its environment protection efforts and achievements, with the aim of achieving the goals of marine environmental conservation and sustainable community development. In the monitoring of algal reef ecology, six stations have been set up throughout Taiwan. In 2021, the Taoyuan algal reefs coast survey results showed that there were 42 algal species in total: 20 macroalgae and 22 crustose coralline algae. The total number of algae species in the Guanxin Algae Reef is the highest, at 37 species; there are 34 algae species in the Datan Algae Reef and 25 in the Baiyu Algae Reef. Guanxin Algae Reef has the highest number of crustose coralline algae (22 species); there are 19 crustose coralline algae species at Datan algal reef and the lowest was 10 crustose coralline algae at the Baiyu algae reef. 30 31