Academy dedicated to the circular economy foundedBy Tung Chen-kuo and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerGovernment partnerships with academia and enterprises are key to achieving net zero emissions by 2050, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said yesterday at the founding of the nation’s first academy dedicated to the circular economy. The National Chung Hsing University Academy of Circular Economy in Nantou County is the first educational institution of its kind to be established in Taiwan and is to play a lead role in the nation’s efforts to tackle the challenges of climate change, the president said. President Tsai Ing-wen, third right, attends the opening of the National Chung Hsing University Academy of Circular Economy in Nantou County’s Jhongsing New Village yesterday. The Nantou campus is in Jhongsing New Village (中興新村), the former seat of the now-defunct Taiwan Provincial Government, university president Hsueh Fu-sheng (薛富盛) said. The Academy of Circular Economy — established under Taipei’s directive to boost industry-university collaboration in key technological fields — would become Asia’s first research institute for new agriculture, digital and green semiconductor technologies, he said.

Source: Taipei Times September 14, 2022 04:15 UTC