TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Kaohsiung’s environment bureau said during a workshop the city’s carbon-capture push has shifted into real operation, with eight local companies now completing carbon-cutting systems.

CNA reported Wednesday that Kaohsiung’s Net Zero Institute held a workshop to advance carbon-cutting tech. The city’s environment bureau said the system is a key tool to hit net-zero by 2050 and that local industries have begun installing new equipment.

Mayor Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) met with steel, petrochemical, energy and electronics firms during the event to talk about funding and technical support. Chen said thermal power and steel or petrochemicals industries will keep producing emissions, so carbon-capture tech is essential for reaching net zero.

Experts at the workshop walked through storage geology and low-carbon power standards. National Taiwan University Professor Liu Ya-hsuan (劉雅瑄) noted that western Taiwan’s deep saline formations could store captured carbon, while Kaohsiung’s industry cluster makes it a prime spot to scale up the tech.

Environment bureau director Chang Jui-hun (張瑞琿) said the office will keep pushing industry meet-ups and ask new factories to include carbon-cutting systems. Chang said the city wants to build a full carbon-cycle value chain to strengthen Kaohsiung’s competitiveness.

Kaohsiung’s Net Zero Institute is a city-backed program that helps local industries learn and adopt low-carbon tech. The institute runs workshops, site visits and training sessions to guide companies as they work toward net-zero emissions.