王吉娜實習日誌12: 高雄市國土綠化與氣候調適行動

 

高雄市國土綠化與氣候調適行動

    今天，我補完了日常寫作記錄，並為即將與 Jennifer 進行的會議做準備。我們將討論 7 月 6 日觀看的一場關於高雄植樹造林的環保直播，探討印太地區的垃圾問題，並進一步交流我們在寵物展上的見聞。

    關於 6 日觀看的那場直播，我們需要寫一份簡要報告來總結討論內容。該直播主要圍繞著「國土綠化與氣候調適」這一議題展開；這是一項政府倡議，旨在全國範圍內（特別是高雄）增加植樹，以應對城市氣溫升高的問題。他們的許多構想都藉鑒了歐盟和新加坡的政策與實踐經驗——在這些地區，政府會獎勵那些落實城市綠化等環保指標的城市。

     針對城市熱島效應，講者特別提到了樹木的遮蔭作用，希望透過增加植樹來打造「遮蔭通道」（或稱為「避光路線」），讓人們在通勤途中能安全地避開烈日行走。此外，他們還討論了木材資源的回收利用問題；有人建議政府應將倒伏或砍伐的樹木轉化為生燃料，而不是簡單地將其焚燒處理。其中一個讓我感到意外的建議是，政府對於種植非本土樹種持開放態度──而在我的家鄉，許多人都極力反對引進外來物種。

Kaohsiung’s National Land Greening and Climate Adaptation Campaign

    Today I finished catching up with my daily writing entries, also preparing for meeting with Jennifer to talk about the environmental livestream we watched on July 6th about planting more trees in Kaohsiung, discussing the trash in the Indo-Pacific, and talking more about what we found in the pet exhibition. 

    For the livestream we watched on the 6th, we were to write a loose report summarizing what they talked about. Apparently it was about the National Land Greening and Climate Adaptation, a governmental initiative to plant more trees across the nation, especially in Kaohsiung, to combat rising urban temperatures. They modeled a lot of their ideas after policies and practices from the European Union and Singapore, where they reward their municipalities for implementing green indicators such as urban greening. 

    Targeting specifically the urban heat island effect, the speakers address the shade effect, wanting more trees to create “shaded/vampire routes” that people can safely walk outside of the sun on their commute. They also talked about wood resource recycling, where one person asked the government to utilize fallen or cut down trees as biofuel instead of just burning them. One suggestion that surprised me was the government being okay with planting non-native species of trees, as back home there are a lot of people who are very against invasive species.