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2025/10/29

Climate Change Support for Governments

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Supporting Local & National Government 


Climate disaster planning ​​​​​​

Risk Analysis and Resilience Enhancement of Shelter and Evacuation for Vulnerable Groups under Climate Change (2023~2025)


Dr. Kai-Yuan Ke from the Center for Weather and Climate Disaster Research at NTU leads a research project on the risk and impact on vulnerable groups due to climate disasters. The project includes the evacuation and displacement of vulnerable groups and aims to increase their resilience. This research is supported by the National Science and Technology Council and will support the local government in facing climate disasters.

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NTU partnered with the Water Resource Agency (WRA, national government)  to improve local community resilience against climate disasters. NTU held 3 workshops, 1 conference, and 4 courses that included 507 participants. As of 2024, NTU had participated in WRA's promotion of non-engineering flood prevention, training 1,477 volunteers and forming 544 self-disaster prevention communities. Supported by an AI bot for real-time reporting and three-hour forecasts, the program integrates technology, education, and community action to strengthen nationwide resilience against flash floods caused by 80% of annual rainfall.  (2024 annual report)
  On the local level, a research group from the Center for Weather and Climate Disaster Research at NTU supported the Taipei City Government on climate change risk monitoring and adaptation plans. The project aimed to use monitoring tools to assist Taipei City citizens (government) in reducing the impact of climate disasters (extreme weather events).



Climate Risk and Monitoring ​​​​​​

Dr. Yung-Chun Lin from the Center for Weather and Climate Disaster Research at NTU collaborated with the New Taipei City Fire Department on typhoon and heavy rainfall monitoring. The project also includes improving early warning systems and increasing local community climate resilience. This is just one of the many projects that NTU collaborated with local governments on extreme weather event disaster warning and prevention.  
  One of the disasters that is magnified due to climate change is landslides. With a higher intensity of rainfall caused by climate change, the debris flow monitoring system needs to be updated to face a greater challenge. On the national level, Dr. Liu from the Hydrotech Research Institute at NTU worked with the National Science and Technology Council on the issue of debris flow monitoring systems. The research focuses on improving the data analysis results from monitors and shortening debris flow warning time.
  With extreme weather events happening more frequently, the Taipei Metro system is at a higher risk of flooding. Dr. Yong-Jun Lin from the Center for Weather and Climate Disaster Research at NTU worked with the National Science and Technology Council on the issue of flood risk management due to climate change. While there's a plethora of domestic studies dissecting risks tied to dike and life-threatening floods, the narrative on land transportation flood risks remains scant. This research navigates the operational pressures on land transport infrastructure due to climate change-induced increased rainfall. 



 

Serving on Climate Change Committees

NTU faculty members serve in several climate change-related offices, task forces, councils, and committees associated with the government. Including: 

  1.  Environmental Impact Assessment Review Committee Members for the Ministry of Environment

  • Prof. Ya-Xuan Liu, Department of Geoscience, NTU
  • Prof. Pei-Fen Li, Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, NTU 
  • Prof. Jia-Hong Hou, Institute of Environmental Engineering, NTU
  • Prof. Bei-De Que, Institute of Environmental Engineering, NTU
  • Prof. Qi-Rong Qiu, School of Forestry and Resource Conservation, NTU

2.   National Sustainable Development Council (2025~2027)

  • Prof. Wei-Jian Chen, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, NTU
  • Prof. Hong-Yu Chen, Department of Geoscience, NTU
  • Prof. Zheng-Fang Lin, Institute of Environmental Engineering, NTU
  • Prof. Cong-Zhen Li, Department of Agricultural Economics, NTU

3.  Executive Yuan's Net-Zero Technology Solutions Task Force

  • Prof. Sue-Ching Jou, from the Department of Geography, led the task force. 

4.  Executive Yuan's Office of Energy and Carbon Reduction

  • Professors Tze-Luen Lin, Department of Political Science, NTU
  • Prof. Kuei-Tien Chou, Graduate Institute of National Development,​ NTU​​​​​​
 
 

Supporting Overseas Government 

  Led by Prof. Jong-Dao Jou from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at NTU, the Taiwan-Philippines VOTE III Project strengthens climate risk monitoring, disaster prevention, and short-term climate forecasting. Collaborating with the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), the project builds seamless prediction capability for typhoons, marine meteorology, and extreme weather. NTU researchers enhance data assimilation, radar-based rainfall monitoring, and numerical weather prediction to better understand typhoon dynamics under climate change. Subprojects such as Project LIGTAS focus on landslide risk assessment and timely hazard advisories, improving regional climate resilience. Through capacity building and cross-border data sharing, the NTU team advances early warning systems and strengthens both nations’ adaptive responses to increasing climate variability and disaster risks in the Western Pacific.  


Figure: A workshop celebrating the ten years of the VOTE program.
  NTU cooperated with the Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund (TICDF) to develop disaster relief projects for developing countries to adapt to extreme weather under climate change. In 2019 TICDF set up a three-year project "Belize Urban Resilience and Disaster Prevention Project", with the Center for Weather Climate and Disaster Research at NTU giving most of the technical support. The project has been extended and resigned for three more years on Dec 1, 2022. The project assists the Government of Belize (national) and the San Ignacio/Santa Elena town council (local) in marking out the potential flood areas and strengthening monitoring, as well as establishing an early warning mechanism for floods.


Figure: Assistant Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering Hao-Che Howard Ho (right) introducing the BURDP Project to Taiwan’s Ambassador in Belize David Kuan-Chou Chien (first left) and Belize’s Minister of Sustainable Development Orlando Habet (second left).
  Guatemala faces a variety of natural disasters. Floods and landslides are caused by torrential rains, tropical storms, and hurricanes during the rainy season each year. Consequently, much of the terrain has been destroyed and many people live in high-risk disaster areas. In view of these challenges, the Center for Weather Climate and Disaster Research at NTU worked with the Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund (TICDF) and the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (CONRED), Guatemala to initiate the Guatemala Disaster Prevention and Early Warning System project (GDPEWS) in 2023. This project leverages climate information and technological disaster prevention tools to improve Guatemala’s resilience. The main contents of the plan include: (1) integrating flood and landslide disaster response information and building a disaster prevention and early warning information platform to assist decision-making; (2) establishing four disaster-prevention communities; and (3) improving the environmental monitoring system in the demonstration area.  


Figure: GDPEWS project group photo

 

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