2027 may be the hottest year in history! Peng Qiming: "High temperature management" expands from early warning to focused protection

Environment Minister Peng Qiming said that Taiwan's warming trend is clear, and high temperature management has expanded from early warning to focused protection and system resilience.

2026 will be the year of the "Super El Niño", and experts predict that 2027 will be the hottest year on record. The National Climate Change Countermeasures Committee of the Presidential Palace held its 9th committee meeting today (22nd). In addition to the listed environmental education , land, green energy, green shade and watersheds, and also launched my country’s high temperature adaptation strategy in response to global heat waves, including high temperature scenario drills, protection of high-risk groups such as children and the elderly, etc., and carried out adaptation actions from the perspective of transportation construction to create sustainable actions.

Environment Minister Peng Qiming said that the last committee included national environmental education with 40,000 participants, land ecological adjustment continued to expand ecological surveys and conservation, green energy development highlighted 4.9GW of 514 offshore wind turbines, green shade promoted the national urban forest and held 30 national tour meetings within six months, and the watershed system spent 14.7 billion yuan this year to allow counties and cities to improve drainage, etc.

However, in the face of extreme climates such as global heat waves, Peng Qiming said that many events in Europe this year have impacted lives and facilities, and extreme heat has become a "normal risk." Taiwan's warming trend is clear, and high temperature management has expanded from early warning to focused protection and system resilience; Taiwan's role as a country includes the establishment of anti-high temperature adaptation countermeasures alliances and scenario drills, and public-private collaboration to provide Cool Map Summer Resort Resources is also piloting a high-temperature safety network in Tainan City to promote financial micro-insurance. As long as you are hospitalized with a heat-related illness, you will receive a care allowance of NT$10,000. It plans to roll it out nationwide next year. It also pays attention to the prevention of heat injuries in children and children’s schools, schools, games, sports and other places. It also emphasizes planting trees to create public cool spaces; the fourth phase of the National Adaptation Plan is also continuing to promote.

Lin Guoxian, deputy minister of the Ministry of Transport, said that sustainable resilience will be built through transportation energy transformation and traffic adjustment actions, including the electrification of urban buses to reach 50% this year, and the electrification of passenger cars to move from 10.4% in August this year to 30% in 2030. It also guides the industry to launch domestic electric models; Next year, 300 million yuan is planned to promote electric and carbon-free commercial vehicles; carbon reduction in maritime transportation will be carried out through biomass fuel, green energy at ports, and electrification of inland water; air transportation will continue to promote SAF (sustainable aviation fuel); other land, sea and air construction will also strengthen climate adjustment resilience, assess disaster risks, and improve early warning and response.