the Secretariat renovated the B1F public space of the city hall with minimal repairs, integrating the United Nations SDGs and circular economy principles to create a sustainable public space. This offers citizens and city employees a warm, comfortable, and vibrant inclusive space.

The New Taipei City Hall is a public building that has now been standing for over 20 years. It has undergone a three-stage transformation from an existing building to an intelligent energy-saving building with a people-centric sustainable working environment, predicated on "energy conservation and carbon reduction," "intelligent energy-saving," and ensuring a "sustainable office environment."

Over the past few years, New Taipei City Government has been committed to building a livable and thriving city by working tirelessly on urban development, river regulation, disaster prevention, traffic infrastructure, ensuring public security, improving education, promoting sports, tourism, and culture.

Mayor Hou pointed out that in the face of various challenges, Taiwan can draw on Singapore's experiences in leveraging its strengths and capabilities internally, and deepen international ties externally to create opportunities and strengths for the nation.

Chingyu Yao, the Director-General of the Secretariat of the New Taipei City Government, investigated the relationship between gender equality efforts at the local level and how it supports the feminist municipal agenda, the UCLG's Pact for the Future, and global initiatives like the SDGs.

Since its designation as a special municipality, New Taipei City has been dedicated to promoting the three-ring, six-line rail construction project. The project is expected to be completed by 2030 and comprises a total length of 235 km. The first ring connects the New Taipei Circular line, the north section of the Circular line, and the south section of the Circular line. The second ring connects the Wanda–Zhonghe line, the Xinzhuang line, and the New Taipei Shulin line. The third ring connects the Banqiao line, the Tucheng line, the Sanyin line, the Taoyuan Green line, the Airport line, and Dingpu. The six lines are the Danhai light rail, Ankeng light rail, Xizhi–Donghu line, Wugu–Taishan light rail, Bali light rail, and Shenkeng light rail.

Between 2019 and 2022, we hosted and participated in 55 international events, during which we exchanged with more than 30 organizations, 379 cities, and 12,577 individuals. Using the language of the global community, New Taipei created a new paradigm for city diplomacy.

Since 2019, the New Taipei City Government has released a series of female empowerment videos titled New Taipei Woman Power. The season 3 (2021), "New Taipei Woman SDG Power," featured 10 New Taipei-based women who are influential in their respective fields of expertise and dedicated to sustainable development goals with the aim of encouraging more women to view themselves as part of the world and work toward the establishment of a sustainable city.||In this season:|EP 1 Meng-Hsuan Chou, Co-founder of Unpakaged. U (the 1st package-free store in New Taipei)|EP 2 Wan-Li Yang, Co-founder of Mingalar par, Myanmar Street|EP 3 Chen-Yi Shih, Founder of Shintsuenfang Space (a local academy in the mountain area Ruifan)|EP 4 Shu-Hsien Wu, Co-founder of JustPinglin|EP 5 Joanne Missingham, a 7 dan professional Go player|EP 6 Gina Hsub, Founder of Dong Hai Hospital Studio (a design studio)|EP 7 Ai-Ning Ou Yang, CEO of REnato lab|EP 8 Ying-Ling Chen, Secretary-General of Sea Angel (a local marine conservation group)|EP 9 Yi-Wen Hsieh, Founder of Inner Farm (an organic farm)|EP 10 Yi-Chun Chen, Co-founder of Paw for Good (a team training stray dogs into therapy dogs)

The Secretariat of New Taipei City Government cohosted the 2022 New Taipei City Urban Diplomacy Forum with Tamkang University's Department of Diplomacy and International Relations today (Sep. 29). This forum featured 6 speakers including Deputy Representative Takashi Hattori of Japan–Taiwan Exchange Association, Deputy Representative Philip Ong of Singapore Trade Office in Taipei, Senior Policy Affairs Officer Lisa Laeven of Netherlands Office Taipei, Professor Hsi-Hsun Tsai of the Graduate Institute of Japanese Political and Economic Studies at Tamkang University, Professor & Chair Yeh-Chung Lu of the Department of Diplomacy at National Chengchi University, and Assistant Professor Tamara Klicek of the International Program on Urban Governance in National Taipei University.|

For the 2022 New Taipei Appreciation Tour, which was held on August 21, New Taipei City Government invited envoys to board the vessel Great River Queen and enjoy views of the mountains and sea along the blue Tamsui River. Near 200 envoys from 34 countries across five continents, including 20 ambassadors and representatives to Taiwan and five presidents of foreign chambers of commerce, attended the tour to support New Taipei City, setting a record for the highest number of participating envoys since Mayor Hou Yu-ih took office.

The "2022 ING Earth Day Forum in New Taipei" held by New Taipei City on April 21 focused on sustainable topics, including "low-carbon mobility" and "SDG City Leaders." More than 20 speakers attended the Forum online and offline globally from 4 states, 6 time-zones, 10 countries, and 15 cities as well as various international organizations, including the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Cities and Local Governments Asia Pacific (UCLG ASPAC), Global Social Economy Forum (GSEF), Google, Mobility In Harmony (MIH), and Japanese think tanks.|||More coverage of the forum:|https://sdgs.ntpc.gov.tw/ch/home.jsp?id=703cd03eb5e556a0&act=be4f48068b2b0031&dataserno=30a4085fa89348e1f56c1e3043963fbe

Mayor Hou stated that New Taipei City began to take actions and align with the international community in promoting sustainable development four years ago and has published two VLR reports and held multiple international forums since then. In response to the United Nations sustainable development goals of reaching net zero emissions globally, New Taipei City hopes to achieve comprehensive bus electrification by 2030 and incorporate zero-carbon design concepts into urban renewal and major development plans. ||Mayor Hou emphasized that "energy conservation and carbon reduction" is no longer an issue of public welfare but an issue of survival! New Taipei City will actively confront challenges with the world in the sustainable, net zero, and post-pandemic era. Like the theme of this forum "ING," New Taipei is a city that is implementing and will continue to implement SDGs.||More coverage of the opening:|https://sdgs.ntpc.gov.tw/ch/home.jsp?id=703cd03eb5e556a0&act=be4f48068b2b0031&dataserno=a10bbdd57f866f1ab914809da084440e

Mr. Mitch Chung, Commissioner of the Transportation Department of New Taipei City Government shared that green energy is not only a solution to climate change but also a drive to sustainable development. New Taipei City Government will continue to proactively promote green transportation and clean energy for environmental protection in the future. ||In addition, New Taipei City will introduce four new concepts, namely green energy, smart technology, sharing, and sustainability. In order to construct a humanity transportation environment, it will actively promote the "three-ring, six-line" mass rapid transit system as well as achieve the comprehensive electrification of 1,400 buses and a total number of 500 million public bike uses by 2030. With the aim to make New Taipei a low-carbon sustainable city, it is expected that CO2 emissions will be reduced by 160,000 metric tons, equivalent to planting 13,000 trees from 2021 to 2030. ||More coverage of the session:|https://sdgs.ntpc.gov.tw/ch/home.jsp?id=703cd03eb5e556a0&act=be4f48068b2b0031&dataserno=a10bbdd57f866f1aa92b504cf482df17

The Earth Day Forum was attended by sustainable partners around the world, including Google, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Kanagawa Prefecture, City of Brisbane, City of Cincinnati, City of Cupertino, City of Alhambra, City of Dangjin, City of Poznań, City of Makati, United Cities and Local Governments Asia-Pacific (UCLG ASPAC), MIT Media lab City Science Group, Mobility In Harmony (MIH), City of Utrecht, Miami-Dade County, City of Helsinki, City of Lahti, County of Starnberg, City of Kitakyushu, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Global Social Economy Forum (GSEF), City of Helsinki, City of Lahti, Kanagawa Prefecture, and City of Dangjin. (in order of appearance in the Forum) ||Yao Ching-Yu, Director General of the Secretariat of New Taipei City Government indicated that it was the second year for New Taipei City to hold the Earth Day Forum. This year, it highlighted 8 mayors joining the Forum online in person as well as the brilliant speeches given by the world SDG leader.||More coverage of the session:|https://sdgs.ntpc.gov.tw/ch/home.jsp?id=703cd03eb5e556a0&act=be4f48068b2b0031&dataserno=6f018cb908b89646ba8b62e66de755c3

Alhambra City is located in southern California where droughts have been recurring. So, water conservation has been a severe issue of energy sustainability there. The city has been putting efforts in terms of air quality, plastic waste, and water conservation since 2016. For example, they encourage local residents to walk or bike instead of driving. Furthermore, a city law has been made to prevent local restaurants from giving out disposable plastic utensils unless customers requested. Alhambra has also been growing more trees, and is now officially recognized as a Tree City.