Miaoli temple earns global carbon certificate

GREEN WORSHIP: The temple optimized pilgrims’ itineraries to avoid unnecessary travel, while incorporating low-carbon transport such as buses, rail and bicycles By Huang Yi-ching and Fion Khan / Staff reporter, with staff writer Add TT as Preferred Source Gongtian Temple (拱天宮) in Miaoli County’s Baishatun (白沙屯) has become the first temple in Taiwan to obtain an international Gold Standard (GS) carbon retirement certificate, the Tourism Innovation Association said yesterday. The association said it has partnered with the Miaoli County Government to promote low-carbon sustainable tourism, with Gongtian Temple — one of Miaoli County’s most important religious centers and a representative site of Matsu (媽祖) worship in Taiwan — serving as a pilot site. The project calculated carbon emissions ge