New forest monitoring system to help fight climate change

By Piyaporn Wongruang 
The Nation

 

 

Thailand is developing forest monitoring systems to measure its success at reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and carbon stocks preservation (REDD+).
 

The programme is part of Thailand’s commitment to help fight climate change.

 

The attempt is supported by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which signed a memorandum of understanding with the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation yesterday to provide technical support.

 

The Forest Carbon Partnership has provided US$3.6 million (Bt118.6 million) to the project, which is due to end in September next year.

 

Pham Hang Thi Thanh, the FAO’s representative, said the organisation wants to provide technical support to Thailand to help it achieve its carbon emissions reduction target set under its nationally determined contribution (NDC). 

 

The NDC targets are intended to cut greenhouse gases emissions under the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

 

Thailand has set its NDC target at a 20-25 per cent reduction in 2030 from the 2005 baseline. This is around 110-140 million tonnes of carbon, according to the Office of the Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning.

 

While the energy and transport sectors are clearly targeted, reduction of carbon emissions from forests remains murky due to complications in measuring, reporting and verifying. It has been a sticking point since REDD was first adopted at the UN Climate Change Convention in Copenhagen in Denmark in 2009.

 

The idea has since been expanded to include other efforts, including sustainable forest management and the preservation of carbon stocks and is now known as REDD+.

 

Thanh said the FAO technical team would help Thailand develop the tools to monitor the forest trend and proceed with REDD+.

 

Director of the Forestry Climate Division Rattana Lukhanaworakul said Thailand is ready to work with the FAO to proceed with REDD+ and achieve the emission targets.

 

Forest targets have not yet been set.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30359044

 

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That says it all, tell them they're dreaming

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The Forest Carbon Partnership has provided US$3.6 million (Bt118.6 million) to the project, which is due to end in September next year.

 

Wonder where that money went ?.

regards Worgeordie

What a joke. The hubris of man on display thinking they can have an effect on climate.

And yet another cash pie to get divided up amongst the corrupt....Yawn

1 hour ago, worgeordie said:

Wonder where that money went ?.

regards Worgeordie

I have a very good idea and it doesn't include buying monitoring equipment

Lol.  Good luck.  Lot's of photo ops during the years of 'concerned Thais' planting trees in a reforestation effort to absorb CO2 and produce O2 - then from February through April Thai citizens take to the hills and literally burn the forests down in order to clear the underbrush and simulate the growth of mushroom and other edible forest growths - fires which spews more CO2 into the air than all the vehicle traffic in the country.  All that damage to produce mushrooms that contribute to a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the Thai GDP.  One step forward, two steps back - it's not a winning scenario.

 

 

 

Edited November 22, 20187 yr by connda

Climate change is one of the justifications for the continued roll-out in Thailand of Agenda 21. which, judging by the familiar jargon buzzwords and unfamilair acronyms, is what this article is actually talking about.

 

Agenda 21 (later rebranded as Agenda 2030) is UN-backed programme, already up and running in most countries, to take total control of all the world's resources under the guise of "saving the planet" from us humans.

 

This goal - pursued through a whole raft of measures under the collective label of "sustainable development" (bet that phrase, at least, rings a bell!) can apparently only be attained by persuading billions of us to give up many of the things - for instance cars and property rights - that make modern life worth living.  

 

Unravelling the numerous strands of Agenda 21 is no easy task, but an entry-level video primers on what is going on can be found in easily-digestible form here https://www.corbettreport.com/tag/agenda-21/ and here 

 

 

 

The official warm and fuzzy official versions of Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 are also available for download, along with masses of other material from other sources far too numerous for me to list here. Good hunting. Knowledge is power.

 

 

Who benefits.....??

I have planted hundreds of mostly fruit trees on the land of my wife. (mostly ex rice paddies which I have raised with soil.) I thought it would also be a great idea to plant some teak and rosewood as long term investments for the children. 

Seems to be a bad idea, the whole thing needs to be vetted and administered by officialdom. There is no guarrantee that the trees could ever be harvested after 20 years.

A good idea to improve forestry stocks would seem to be to make it easier to plant more trees, not stop with red tape.