Taiwan rolls out carbon-fee subsidy rules as tokenized carbon credits gain attention
Taiwan’s Ministry of Environment has formally issued subsidy rules tied to carbon-fee revenue, putting 15 measures into effect on July 14 and channeling NT$4.97 billion already collected this year into the Greenhouse Gas Management Fund. Under the framework, each approved project can receive up to 50% of total funding, with applicants required to cover the rest. Eligible applicants include companies, factories, private institutions, government agencies, universities, and academic research bodies. The subsidy program targets six areas: low- or zero-carbon fuels and production processes, energy-saving measures, carbon capture, utilization and storage, negative-emission technologies, responses to the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, and research into emissions reduction and climate adaptation. Items deemed legal compliance obligations are excluded, and supported projects must undergo effectiveness reviews with quarterly disclosures on the ministry’s website. The report also points to a separate trend gathering pace globally: carbon-credit tokenization on blockchain. It cites PwC’s projection that the global carbon market could reach $100 billion by 2030, while rwa.xyz data shows tokenized assets had exceeded $30 billion by the first quarter of 2026. Examples mentioned include regulated carbon-market infrastructure in Brazil, hourly carbon-accounting tokens used by Microsoft and Google, and Taiwan’s earlier carbon-credit purchases and STO-based token experiments.
