However, over the past several years, with the status of the Kyoto Protocol still in flux and Taiwan's greenhouse gas emissions increasing year-ly, Yeh Jiunn-Rong, a minister without portfolio in the Executive Yuan admitted that Taiwan's situation was "quite dire." Based on current levels of emissions, meeting the target will be nigh on impossible.
但是幾年下來，京都議定書懸而未決，國內溫室氣體排放量也年年飆升，行政院政務委員葉俊榮不諱言，台灣的情況「相當嚴重」，以目前排放估計，要達成目標將是一項艱鉅的任務。