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Blitz on smoky cars to curb PM2.5 smog
The Pollution Control Department (PCD) aims to reduce PM2.5 air pollution by 25% by imposing the maximum punishment under the traffic law on any driver whose vehicle produces black smoke caused by poor maintenance.
Will Cambodia Commit to Protecting Its Forests?
Over the past two decades, Cambodia has lost 28 percent of its tree cover — equivalent to 2.46 million hectares, according to the Global Forest Watch dataset. The annual rate of wood loss expanded by almost 300 percent during the same period.
Cambodia has built 15,000 km of paved roads and 20 bridges across the Mekong, Bassac and Tonle Sap rivers
Funding for Cambodia’s infrastructure comes from a number of development partners, including China, Japan, Korea, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, Thailand, Vietnam, and national budget. Therefore, Cambodia does not rely on China for 100% financing for its infrastructure development as often alleged.
What Was Thailand Doing at the COP26 Summit?
Thailand didn’t make bold climate commitments or sign key agreements reached at the conference. So why was Prayut in Glasgow?
Cambodia’s Hun Sen blames deforestation on the country’s poor
Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen blamed the country’s poor this week for the country’s growing loss of forest cover, saying authorities should now demolish all wooden houses built after 1979 to reclaim the materials from which they were built.
Locked in – Why Thailand buys electricity from Laos
The Thai National Energy Policy Committee recently decided to purchase electricity generated by three planned hydropower projects on the Mekong River in Laos. Not surprisingly it’s the low purchases prices Thailand is able to lock in that makes Laos’ hydropower a major player in Thailand’s energy market, all the while brushing aside the incalculable, and mounting, social and environmental impacts of dams and reservoirs necessary to produce it.
Carbon pricing aids Vietnam’s efforts towards decarbonization
Vietnam’s revised Law on Environmental Protection (LEP) to be effective as of January 1, 2022 legalizes the establishment of a carbon market. The carbon market aims to address multiple goals: reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, enhancing Vietnam’s contribution to global climate change goals, and encouraging greener and cleaner technology innovation.
Study backs adoption of GMO tech
The suggestion was presented yesterday by Khunying Thongtip Ratanarat, a member of the board of the Petroleum Institute of Thailand, who was asked by the Energy Policy and Planning Office to conduct a study on a master plan on the fourth-phase development of the Thai petrochemical industry over the next three decades.
Rare earth metals used in electric vehicles may come from mines controlled by Myanmar junta
Amid the global effort to combat climate change, giant carmakers like Tesla hope to sell millions of electric vehicles to replace petrol-powered cars and trucks. But there’s a snag: one of the main source countries of a key metal used in the motors of many electric vehicles is military-ruled Myanmar.