Category: Thailand
UN in Thailand launches Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) online campaign
“We have been separating peace, justice, and the rule of law from each other. Actually, these three elements are the same thing. To create peace, we must also create justice, and the law must also be fair.”
Saving a beach paradise from mass tourism
Thai authorities want to cap the number of tourists at Maya Bay to rescue its stressed marine ecosystem. The iconic cove from “The Beach” had to be sealed off to the public after almost all its coral was destroyed.
Locals fear water conflict as new industrial boom arrives along Thailand’s eastern seaboard
“Even before the EEC, there was a troublesome lack of water in the eastern seaboard area,” said Somnuck Jongmeewasin, a conservationist and research director at EEC Watch. “In my local community, there’s a lack of water. If we want water, we have to buy and it’s very expensive. The industrial sector can get the water because they have money. This is the inequality.”
Thailand Lays Out Bold EV Plan, Wants All Electric Cars by 2035
Thailand aims to only sell zero-emission vehicles in the country from 2035 as it works to transform itself from a Southeast Asian hub for the production of conventional autos to one making electric cars.
Climate change: Growing doubts over chip fat biofuel
“Because we are buying it, they have less used cooking oil to use on the things that they were previously using it for,” said Greg Archer with Transport & Environment. “And they’re just buying more virgin oil and that virgin oil is largely palm oil, because that’s the cheapest oil available. So indirectly, we’re just encouraging more deforestation in Southeast Asia.”
Summit on future of Mekong to be held
Thailand will later this year host the 28th meeting of the council of the Mekong River Commission. At a meeting this week Thai officials discussed progress on the process of prior consultation in the Procedures for Notification, Prior Consultation and Agreement off the Sanakham hydropower project, proposed on the Mekong mainstream between Xayaburi and Vientiane provinces of neighbouring Laos.
Feeding the beast: Chiang Mai smoke seen as world’s climate change problem
From Chiang Mai air pollution to global climate change, animal agriculture is the elephant in the room — and biochar one way to tame it.
Thailand floats hydro-solar projects for its dams as fossil fuel supplement
Thailand is close to completing one the world’s biggest floating hydro-solar hybrid projects on the surface of a dam, a step toward boosting renewable energy production after years of criticism for reliance on fossil fuels.