▲The 2025 4th Asia-Pacific Sustainability Expo, hosted by TAISE, is one of Taiwan’s largest annual sustainability events, will be held from 11 to 13 September at the Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall. This year, envoys and representatives from 19 countries, including Taiwan, together with 180 participating organizations, will showcase their diverse contributions to sustainable development, inspiring more members of the public to join the sustainability movement. 
　

The 2025 Asia-Pacific and Taiwan Sustainability Action Awards Ceremony took place on September 11, 2025, during the fourth Asia-Pacific Sustainability Expo at Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1. Hosted by the Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy (TAISE), the event integrated the Asia-Pacific Sustainability Action Awards (APSAA) and Taiwan Sustainability Action Awards (TSAA), showcasing cross-sector achievements aligned with the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This year's theme, "Action First," highlighted measurable governance, project outcomes, and scalable methodologies from Taiwan to the Asia-Pacific region.

 

The narrative for this year’s ceremony followed a clear, interconnected structure built around three themes. First, “Action at the Core” focused the judging on verifiable outcomes and governance mechanisms—from decarbonization and circularity to public services and social inclusion—highlighting solutions that are visible, learnable, and replicable. Second, “Policy × Industry Resonance” brought ministries and businesses onto the same stage to align on net-zero transition, data governance, and sustainable finance, ensuring policy design and market innovation reinforce one another. Third, “Youth × City Relay” connected next‑generation innovation proposals with local governance dialogues, turning community pilots into long‑term urban roadmaps and creating momentum that scales from projects to systems.

 

Viewed across sectors, 2025 award landscape reveals three clear threads:

 

Ambassador Eugene Chien, Chairman of TAISE, emphasized that Taiwan is not just a participant but a platform and bridge for sustainability dialogue in the region. A good award, he noted, is “the beginning of responsibility,” not the end. Throughout the morning and afternoon, representatives from the Economic Affairs, Environment, Finance, National Development Council, Health and Welfare, and Education ministries offered remarks and presented awards, putting policy and industry in the same frame. Their joint presence sent regulatory and market signals while sharing governance tools and indicators that others can adopt and scale.

 

Youth and cities also emerged as key accelerators of sustainable development. The Outstanding Sustainability Youth Awards highlighted new solutions in circular food and agriculture, marine conservation, resource recycling, local revitalization, and social enterprises, showing how younger generations are closing the gap between ideas and implementation. The afternoon Sustainability Cities Summit gathered the six special municipalities to discuss net‑zero governance, resilient infrastructure, social justice, and data governance, translating pilot projects and governance KPIs into comparable, trackable metrics that support cross‑city learning.

 

Structurally, TSAA mapped Taiwan’s progress to the UN SDGs, with Climate Action (SDG 13) and Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG 12) maintaining strong momentum, and Good Health and Well‑being (SDG 3) plus Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11) improving in both depth and scale. APSAA added the “Livable and Sustainable City Award” and “Top Chief Sustainability Officer Award” to its corporate, government, hospital, school, and NGO categories, underscoring the importance of urban innovation and CSO leadership. The Taiwan Outstanding Sustainability Governance Mayor Awards (central and local) showcased exemplary models across public security, environmental education, resource circularity, and public services. Over one day, 16 award segments—seven in the morning and nine in the afternoon—linked corporate and civil‑society projects with central and local governance, youth innovation, and urban pathways to present a panoramic view of sustainability action in Taiwan and the Asia‑Pacific.

 

“Sustainability is a journey with no finish line.” Taking this year’s ceremony as a new starting point, TAISE calls on all awardees and participants to turn recognition into responsibility in both governance and markets, continue scaling replicable methodologies and partnerships, and leverage youth and cities as twin engines so Taiwan can keep serving as a key platform and bridge in the Asia‑Pacific sustainability arena.

 ▲Envoys and representatives from countries with diplomatic missions in Taiwan join the celebration


▲Distinguished guests fill the venue


▲Cultural performance by nationals of Saint Christopher and Nevis living in Taiwan

▲Remarks by Deputy Minister Jiunn-Horng Yeh, Ministry of Environment


▲Remarks by Administrative Deputy Minister Ling‑Yuan Hsieh, Ministry of Finance

▲Remarks by Deputy Minister Shien-Quey Kao, National Development Council


▲Remarks by Deputy Minister Ching‑Yi Lin, Ministry of Health and Welfare


▲Remarks by Deputy Minister Kuo‑Wei Liu, Ministry of Education


▲Remarks by special guest Jin‑Pyng Wang, former President of the Legislative Yuan


▲Group photo of TAISE Chairman Eugene Chien (front row, sixth from right), Secretary‑General Ming‑Cih Chuang, Ministry of Economic Affairs, and corporate awardees – Group 1


▲Group photo of TAISE Chairman Eugene Chien (front row, sixth from right), Secretary‑General Ming‑Cih Chuang, and corporate awardees – Group 2

▲Group photo of TAISE Chairman Eugene Chien (front row, sixth from right), Deputy Minister Jiunn-Horng Yeh, Ministry of Environment, and corporate awardees – Group 3


▲Group photo of TAISE Chairman Eugene Chien (front row, sixth from right), Deputy Minister Jiunn-Horng Yeh, and NGO awardees

▲Group photo of TAISE Chairman Eugene Chien (sixth from left) and Yunlin County Magistrate Li‑shan Chang with winning county and city departments

▲Group photo of TAISE Chairman Eugene Chien (front row, sixth from right), Deputy Minister Ling‑yuan Hsieh, and corporate awardees – Group 6

▲Group photo of TAISE Chairman Eugene Chien (front row, sixth from right), Deputy Minister Ling‑yuan Hsieh, and corporate awardees – Group 7

▲Group photo of TAISE Chairman Eugene Chien (front row, fourth from right) and recipients of the Taiwan Outstanding Sustainability Governance Mayor Award – Central Government

▲Group photo of TAISE Chairman Eugene Chien (fourth from right), Deputy Minister Shien‑Quey Kao, and Livable and Sustainable City awardees

▲Group photo of TAISE Chairman Eugene Chien (fifth from right), Deputy Minister Shien‑Quey Kao, and Government awardees – Group 1

▲Group photo of TAISE Chairman Eugene Chien (sixth from left), Deputy Minister Shien‑Quey Kao, and Government awardees – Group 2

▲Group photo of TAISE Chairman Eugene Chien (eighth from right), Deputy Minister Ching‑Yi Lin, Ministry of Health and Welfare, and Hospital awardees – Group 1

▲Group photo of TAISE Chairman Eugene Chien (sixth from right), Deputy Minister Ching‑Yi Lin, and Hospital awardees – Group 2

▲Group photo of TAISE Chairman Eugene Chien (fifth from right), Deputy Minister Ching‑Yi Lin, and Outstanding Sustainability Youth awardees

▲Group photo of TAISE Chairman Eugene Chien (front row, fifth from left), Deputy Minister Kuo‑Wei Liu, Ministry of Education, and University awardees – Group 1

▲Group photo of TAISE Chairman Eugene Chien (front row, fifth from right), Deputy Minister Kuo‑Wei Liu, and University awardees – Group 2

▲Group photo of TAISE Chairman Eugene Chien (front row, fifth from right), former Legislative Yuan President Jin‑Pyng Wang, and recipients of the Taiwan Outstanding Sustainability Governance Mayor Award – Local Government