TEPA minister returns from U.N. climate conference
Wei Kuo-yen, the head of Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration (EPA), returned to the country today from Paris, where he had taken part in activities related to a United Nations conference on climate change.
The 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, concluded Friday in the French capital.
Although Taiwan is not a party to the UNFCCC, it had a 50-member delegation attending COP21 activities as part of a non-governmental organization under the Industrial Technology Research Institute.
Wei was Taiwan's first EPA head to take part in a COP activity.