Southeast Asia faces far reaching challenges in ensuring regional cooperation in dealing with climate change after the decision by the United States to withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Category: Thailand
Regional cooperation ‘key’ to Mekong projects
As nations in the Greater Mekong Subregion suffer a rise in water shortages and salinity intrusion, governments need to cooperate in order to safeguard the livelihood of residents in the river basin and their diverse cultures, experts said.
Push for labelling laws to have restaurants and takeaway shops tell us where our seafood comes from
SOUTH Australian seafood, there’s nothing like it. Tucking into a fisherman’s basket on the foreshore is a Croweater’s birthright — but do we really know what we’re eating?
This is climate change: When is Thailand going to do something about it?
The rivers have escaped their banks. They have destroyed millions of rai of paddies and fields newly prepared for planting.
Nation lacks a coherent solar strategy
Declining costs of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and energy storage systems have inspired customers and businesses to change the way we produce and consume electricity. Already, several shopping malls and factories in Thailand are using rooftop solar PV systems, which convert sunlight into electricity, to help power their operations and lower their electricity bills.
US exit ‘won’t deter world’
Thailand remains committed to goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent by 2020; Al Gore calls Trump move threat to humanity, says no one can stop clean energy revolution.
Selling locals down the Mekong River
It’s always difficult for the little guy to get his voice heard. For those who have found themselves downstream of the international river where transboundary development is taking place, like the Mekong River, your chances are nil.
Will China’s new Silk Road be green?
Will the Belt and Road Initiative bring environmental devastation or a new era of Chinese global resource stewardship? Asks Lili Pike
Companies Join Hands to Build Xe Bangfai Dam
Mitr Phol Corp., Ltd of Thailand and the Laosamay Road Bridge Construction Company have signed a joint investment agreement for the development and construction of a hydropower dam on the Xe Bangfai river in Khammuan and an irrigation system for both Khammuan and Savannakhet provinces.
What’s at stake in China’s plan to blow up islands in the Mekong
The company charged with developing a trade route along the Mekong River (the state-owned Chinese Communications Construction Company) is set to dynamite river islands