BANGKOK (์NNT) - Thailand is now making preparations on raising its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to 40%, instead of 20-25%, by 2065. The revision to the country’s medium-term emissions reduction target comes in response to pledges made at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) and the realization that global temperatures are trending toward a 2.3 degrees Celsius increase.

 

The “COP26 Debrief: World Future and Thai Future” event was held in Bangkok today (16 Dec) in order for relevant parties to distill the outcomes of COP26 and project their operations toward the same direction.

 

Natural Resources and Environment Minister Warawut Silpa-archa said at the event that numerous countries have concertedly declared their greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets this year in order to propel the world toward the goal of carbon neutrality. The nations are also setting their sights on reaching net-zero emission of greenhouse gases after 2050, in keeping with the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) announced as part of the Paris Agreement. The minister explained that NDCs are aimed at enabling countries to achieve a balance between greenhouse gas emissions and removal, and ultimately maintaining the average global temperature rise to between 1.5-2 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial level.

 

According to Mr. Warawut, Thailand is currently implementing climate actions in accordance with its Paris Agreement NDCs, which means emissions need to be cut by 20-25% by 2030 or within 9 years. For the medium term, or from 2050 to 2065, the reduction goal is being raised to 40% and this will necessitate a readjustment of energy usage plans in Thailand by the Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives as well as other agencies. Mr. Warawut said the global temperature rise is now predicted to reach 2.3 degrees Celsius.

 

The environment minister explained that for the long term, Thailand will act in keeping with declarations made by the prime minister at the COP26 summit. The country will work to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2065. Thailand will be one of three ASEAN countries to undertake a study of GHG emissions by various sectors and use the findings to establish compile a database that can be drawn on when the country establishes its next set of NDCs.

 

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By 2065... laughable.

Half of Thailand won't be around by then.

10 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

By 2065... laughable.

Half of Thailand won't be around by then.

It'll be a Chinese colony opening coalmines.

2 hours ago, mikebell said:

It'll be a Chinese colony opening coalmines.

A holding centre for Taiwanese?

Digest ALL the options:

Disband Thailand's rainmaker Air fleet, reduce carbon footprint and NO2 emissions.

Reject Japan's gift of aged diesel-powered trains. 

Reduce ICE-powered traffic in major metro areas.

Stop using Palm oil in electric power plants.

Reduce fossil-fueled power plants.

Allow electric power buy-back rates from individual and small business solar collection that is higher than utility avoided cost.

Promote solar hot water systems.

Add nuclear-powered plants that produce about the same amount of NO2 emissions as wind and 1/3rd as solar.

Etc., etc.

Better to set new goals so that the government can gloss over the fact that the old goals were never met. Thailand joins the global symphony of politicians benchmarking new targets that will never be achieved and with dates pushed out far enough that the lying politicians won't have to justify the future failures because they will be retired or dead. 

No sweat. They will ensure the annual air pollution problems are included and Thailand will become the oxygen hub of the world.

Why do they put up these targets that are so extremly delussional? These targets are lies if authorities do close to nothing to enforce preventive measures. The word has alredy spread globally, that Bangkok and every province obove that latitude have a serious air pollution problem during the tourist high season. It will have a great impact on tourism over time, as people who come here will tell how bad it is. It is often visually and looks like fog, but everyone with normal smellng senses will know it is air pollution. With lame ducks in charge nothing will improve. They now say air pollution will now get worse because of more traffic. That would maybe be the case in some western contries, but here the traffic is NOT the major problem. Where i live the PM 2.5 level has the last month normally been between 4 to 8 times above WHO guidelines and it has nothing to do with traffic, only burning. 

On 12/18/2021 at 1:09 PM, Aussieroaming said:

Better to set new goals so that the government can gloss over the fact that the old goals were never met. Thailand joins the global symphony of politicians benchmarking new targets that will never be achieved and with dates pushed out far enough that the lying politicians won't have to justify the future failures because they will be retired or dead. 

Aussie, You are correct sir. None of the climate zealots predictions have become true to date.  "Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions " This headline is very easy to find..a quick google search will show exactly how wrong they,ve proven to be.

IE: The push for electric vehicles needs a lot of infrastructure work like charging options, power grid limitations on and on.

The Mekhong River is in dire danger because of glacial melting.

 

https://nordot.app/845860271111913472?c=592622757532812385

 

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/it-s-not-just-melting-glaciers-endanger-mekong-and-its-region