Workers on a wind turbine in Chaiyaphum province, Thailand.//ADB/Gerhard Joren

 

“Social responsibility and sustainable profit” can go hand in hand according to the chief of Thailand’s government pension fund. The UN, and some of the biggest players in the Thai economy, are working together to support efforts by the country’s finance and banking institutions to speed up the South East Asian country’s transition to a net zero carbon economy.

 

It is increasingly recognized that the finance and banking sectors can have a huge influence on the economy, through the way that they decide to invest in, and fund, businesses, and in Thailand, the UN is helping the government to raise awareness of the importance of sustainable finance.

 

Ahead of a UN-backed event aimed at encouraging Thai finance leaders to adopt sustainable business practices, Eric Usher, the head of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative, spoke with Srikanya Yathip, Secretary General of the Thai Government Pension Fund (GPF) and Kattiya Indaravijaya, CEO of Kasikornbank for UN News. 

 

Full story: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/08/1096652

 

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That would be the Stapedius muscle

Does this mean the air in Chiang Mai or Bangkok will stop being carcinogenic?

Laughable.

 

 

Its not April fools day, we have to wait 8 choking months of suffocating burn season to get to April fools.

Does that mean that they will take action against the burnings that starts in a coupe of months?