In global fight against climate change, Taiwan needs a real seat at the table

Despite its track record, Taiwan remains excluded from meaningful participation in the upcoming COP25 session. The global effort to curb emissions will be missing a crucial component so long as Taiwan is left out.

The 24th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP24) took place in Katowice, Poland in December 2018. Pictured at COP24, from left to right, are: UNFCCC executive secretary Patricia Espinosa, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, COP24 President Michal Kurtyka, and First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon.Photograph courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY WINSTON WEN-YI CHEN

November 20, 2019

Perhaps the most pressing and important crisis facing the international community today is that of climate change. Nations big and small must work collaboratively in order to prevent and mitigate its impacts, which makes the work done under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (...

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