2021.05.11 The latest announcement of 2019 Greenhouse Gas examination shows that the top 10 carbon emitting companies account for 40% of Taiwan's overall carbon emissions
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The latest announcement of 2019 Greenhouse Gas examination shows that the top 10 carbon emitting companies account for 40% of Taiwan's overall carbon emissions.
Counting this figure into the external environment cost, it’s up to NT$680 billion a year. That is to say, many companies make profits at the expense of the environment we live in! While the EPA promotes the Carbon tax
, what Net Zero strategy we should have?
Taiwan Top ten carbon-emission companies
| 2019 Emissions (million tons) | percentage of emissions | External costs ( billions of dollars) | Estimated Carbon Tax ($ billion dollars) | |
| 1.台塑石化 | 2752 | 10.6% | 1825 | 83 |
| 2.中國鋼鐵 | 2156 | 8.3% | 1429 | 65 |
| 3.中龍鋼鐵 | 904 | 3.5% | 599 | 27 |
| 4.台灣化學纖維 | 833 | 3.2% | 552 | 25 |
| 5.台灣塑膠 | 792 | 3.1% | 525 | 24 |
| 6.台灣中油 | 773 | 3.0% | 513 | 23 |
| 7.台積電 | 770 | 3.0% | 510 | 23 |
| 8.南亞塑膠 | 555 | 2.1% | 368 | 17 |
| 9.台灣水泥 | 448 | 1.7% | 297 | 13 |
| 10.長春石化 | 333 | 1.3% | 221 | 10 |
