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Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection In addition to the regular monitoring and surveying of algal reef ecology, CPC has completed habitat restoration for little terns since 2019. CPC has worked with the Wild Bird Society of Taoyuan and the Taoyuan City Government, and the reproductive success rate increased significantly from 17%-30% to 68% recently. In 2021, the reproduction success rate for little terns in Taoyuan, moreover, increased to 72%, 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. Significant reduction of greenhouse gases and carrying out climate risk assessments Taiwan’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Management Act was formally promulgated on July 1, 2015. CPC has set goals to reduce greenhouse gases in compliance with national policies, and it continues to monitor its emissions through the calculation of its greenhouse gas inventory. In order to achieve the national goal of long-term greenhouse emissions reduction, CPC introduced the ISO 14064-1 system in 2004 for the calculation of its greenhouse gas inventory, actively implemented its energy saving carbon emission reduction plan, and set targets and timelines for carbon emission reduction for its existing plants. CPC has also 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, CPC has used the latest technology to effectively improve the energy efficiency of its plants. As a result, the company’s reduction in greenhouse emissions from 2005 to 2020, which was verified by a third-party, was about 38.6%. In addition, CPC has implemented electricity conservation in its offices in compliance with the guidelines on the management plan for power usage effectiveness for government agencies and schools laid down by the Executive Yuan, saving 1.5% electricity costs from 2021 from Jan. to Nov., according to the statistics of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and achieving its annual power consumption goal. CPC’s offices of monitored units had switched to all-LED lighting by September, 2020. In response to the risks from climate change, the company has participated in the climate change adaptation strategy and guidance program for the energy sector; climate risk assessments and reports of 24 plants were completed between 2018 and 2020. Comparison of CPC’s oil refinery environmental quality and the national standard Unit: metric ton TSP SOx 400 225.3 168.2 215.2 1,600 200 800 00 1,154.6 647.1 705.9 2019 2020 2021 2,048.6 1,957.0 1,711.0 2019 2020 2021 NOx 4,000 2,000 3,263.5 2,761.2 2,949.5 VOCs 2,400 2019 2020 2021 1,200 00 2019 2020 2021 Note 1: The increase in emissions of TSP, SOx and NOx from CPC ̓s oil refining and the petrochemical plants in 2021 compared with 2020 is due to the increase in the number of operating days of the heavy oil cracking process in the Taoyuan Refinery and Dalin Refinery in that year, resulting in an increase in emissions. Note 2: the emission levels of 2019 and 2020 meet the approved amounts of emission, while the emission levels of 2021 is the reported amount of emission.