Research Center of Climate Change and Sustainable Development (CCSD)
氣候變遷與永續發展研究中心
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Description
Preface
National Taiwan University, according to the resolution of the 2674th University-Affair meeting in June 21st, 2011, approved to establish Research Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Development to integrate relative human forces and resources, and to facilitate inter-disciplinary co-operation, so as to focus on Taiwan’s challenges and issues, to design research orientations for important issues, to research on complete strategies for national climate governance, and to define different roles that governmental organizations and citizens shell play. We aim at proposing concrete outcomes, and becoming an important consultant for policy making, and furthermore, assisting relative industries to form a firm basis in global markets, and ultimately elevating Taiwan’s national competency.
Goals:
This center is established to integrate and elevate NTU’s research in climate change and sustainable development, and to a build a research team of world-class excellence, so as to be in response to demands for development and to assist government, enterprises and non-governmental organizations to realize relative policies and technology applications.
A. Missions
a. Analyzing risks and impacts of climate change and proposing policies for sustainable development in social and economic aspects
b. Establishing system models in economy, ecology and energy to support policy-making for adaptations for climate change
c. Publishing key reports for policy makers so as to be a leader toward a low-carbon future
B. Promotion Strategies
a. Integrating Existing Resources
Aiming at being a university-level platform for interaction to integrate internal resources and manpower, and to provide a top research environment
Integrating research outcomes to elevate teaching quality, and enhancing cultivation for top talents
b. Elevating Research Capacity
Taking Taiwan as a research field, and promoting frontier researches on climate change and sustainable development
Encouraging opportunities for research co-operation between each research orientation, promoting collaborated research works among disciplines and across boundary between humanities and natural sciences, and improving the theoretical level and scope of application
c. Broadening Real Co-operation
Facilitating collaboration among domestic colleges and universities, research institutes (such as Academia Sinica, Chunghua Institute for Economic Research, and etc.), industry associations, and foundations
Playing an active role in co-operation and exchange with international research institutes and world’s top universities
d. Publishing Important Results
Holding academic and citizen forums to disclose research outcomes and to enable actual opinion exchange
Publishing key reports to provide professional suggestions to climate change and sustainable development issues