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Government pledges to reduce carbon emissions by 26-30 percent by 2030
The government says it plans to further reduce carbon emissions to reflect
the island's commitment to net zero.

Speaking at the third meeting of the Presidential Office's climate change
committee, President Lai Ching-te announced what he called the government's
"more ambitious ( 有雄心的) carbon reduction targets."

According to Lai, his administration will work to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions by between 26 and 30-per cent by 2030 compared to 2005 levels.

Lai told the committee that the revised reductions mean Taiwan's carbon
emissions should be reduced between 30 and 34-per cent by 2032.

The president went on to say it's crucial for the people of Taiwan to take
more active steps in fulfilling a responsibilities to the international
community.

TaiwanICDF opens applications for overseas volunteers
The Taiwan I-C-D-F foreign aid agency has announced that's accepting
applications for its annual volunteer program that provides humanitarian and
other assistance to the nation's diplomatic allies and less-developed
countries.

The agency is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

And it says it will recruit 44 volunteers to work in areas such as
information technology, public health, veterinary science, nutritional
science, nursing, health education, mental health and epidemiological
(流行病學的) statistics.

Taiwanese nationals aged 20 or above are eligible (有資格的) to apply.

Those selected will be deployed to one of 11 countries in the Asia Pacific,
the Caribbean, Africa, and Central and South America for six months to a
year, it added.

The deadline for all applications is February 10.

Cold weather forecast in run-up to Lunar New Year
The Central Weather Administration says low temperatures and rain can be
expected ahead of Lunar New Year's Day next Wednesday.

A strong continental cold air mass is forecast to approach Taiwan on Monday -
sending the mercury down to below 10 degrees in some areas.

The cold front is forecast to be at strongest on Lunar New Year's Eve and
into Lunar New Year's Day - when parts of the north and east could see lows
of 9-degrees.

Other area will see lows of between 12 and 14-degrees next Tuesday and
Wednesday.

The weather administration says snow is also likely to fall at elevations
over 2,000-meters in the north and east.

The cold front is expected to weaken from next Thursday and temperatures
rebound.

However, another cold front is expected to approach the island on the second
to last day of the nine-day Lunar New Year holiday - once again bringing down
temperatures in the north and east.

Trump to Visit States Hit by Natural Disasters
US President Donald Trump will today visit North Carolina and California, two
American states recently ravaged (摧殘) by natural disasters.

Benji Hyer reports.

UN Climate Interrupting Schooling
The United Nations Children's Fund says over 200 million children had their
schooling interrupted last year because of heatwaves, cyclones, flooding and
other extreme weather.

UNICEF says it amounted to one in seven school-going children across the
world being kept out of class at some point in 2024 because of climate
crises.

The new UNICEF report released today also outlines (概述) how some countries
saw hundreds of their schools destroyed, with low-income nations in Asia and
sub-Saharan Africa hit especially hard.

But while deadly floods and cyclones hit the world in 2024, UNICEF says
heatwaves were “the predominant climate hazard shuttering schools last
year."

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