2009年4月「第三次全國能源會議」建立了10年內「打造低碳家園」的行動策略，期望於民國2011年每個縣市至少建構2個低碳示範社區作為基礎，並循序漸進達成低碳家園與永續社會之願景。從低碳社區之環境綠化、低碳建築、節約能源、再生能源、資源循環、低碳運輸及低碳生活等七大具體減碳面向分析，建構低碳社區除應考量社區硬體設施外，對於運營階段之能源消耗及居民是否自覺落實低碳生活有絕對關係，因此，評估指標系統除了提供客觀依據來評估社區之低碳化程度，更重要的是希望透過社區動態排碳情況之揭露，成為激勵引導社區持續進行低碳改善工作之動力。本文嘗試以社區日常能源消耗及廢棄物產生量等量化數據，轉化成為低碳社區評估指標之建構基礎。最後將建構之指標系統實際應用於環保署建構之52處低碳示範社區之評估作業，並運用計算各社區之排碳量。

In April 2009, the third National Energy Conference established a strategy to create low-carbon homes within 10 years, expecting to construct at least two low-carbon demonstration communities each county in 2011, and gradually achieving the goal of building low-carbon homes and sustainable society. Analyzing from seven specific carbon reduction of greening, low-carbon buildings , energy conservation, renewable energy, energy recycling , low-carbon transport and low-carbon living, constructing low-carbon community should consider hardware facilities, energy consumption during operational phases and residents' awareness should be also thought of. Therefore, evaluation index system should be providing objective basis to assess low-carbon communities, apart from that, residents should be motivated to continue low-carbon work by revealing carbon emission amount in the community. Hence, in this research, daily energy consumption and waste generation as well as other quantitative data are attempted to be transformed into a constructed basis on a low-carbon community assessment indicators. Eventually, the constructed indicator systems are applied to 52 low-carbon demonstration communities built by EPA. By calculating carbon emissions in each community.