EU Urges Thai Firms to Consider Green Deal

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Director for Strategy at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for the Environment Astrid Schomaker has urged Thai companies to prioritize implementing the EU’s Green Deal and moving toward a sustainable economy in order to increase business opportunities with the blog.

 

According to Schomaker, the EU Green Deal, which has been adopted and designed as a systemic response to the three major issues of climate change, biodiversity, and pollution, is the driving force behind the EU’s internal and external policies, including trade. Its goal is to turn environmental challenges into opportunities for business, growth, and job creation.

 

Schomaker stated that in order to effectively conduct business with the EU under the Green Deal framework, each company should consider three key initiatives: the legislative proposal for deforestation, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, and mandatory social and environmental due diligence across supply chains.

 

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The EU official suggested that Thai companies gradually integrate their businesses and transition to a more sustainable economy by utilizing the specific framework to create opportunities for businesses that would benefit from technological progress and experience exchanges.

 

Schomaker also stated the EU’s willingness to support and provide technical assistance to Thai firms interested in heading toward a business restructuring using this particularly innovative and digital transition.

 

In anticipation of future challenges, Schomaker said companies experiencing difficulties in planning for or implementing the "Green Deal" can seek additional recommendations, support, and assistance from the European Chamber of Commerce and its related units in Thailand.

 

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[BKKTRAVELER]

Thai firms going green and sustainable... ok... ????

[ikke1959]

Now I am wondering when things are going to happen ... yesterday at least 5 cars with black smoke, a lot of pollution by open air fires, very old vehicles sometimes full of holes driving on the road, Ancient orange busses to bring people from one to another place... and many cars and motorcycles racing around .. Thailand goes green, with no alternative energy sources as wind energy, electric cars and solar panels...but with a lot of complaining about bad air quality...  Maybe just start tomorrow and really start.... instead of talking?? 

[RichardColeman]

They should get these EU bozos to come and look at the trash on the floor in Thailand thrown out the window of the cars by lazy Thais and motorbike riders, they'd just give up.

[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Director for Strategy at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for the Environment Astrid Schomaker has urged Thai companies to prioritize implementing the EU’s Green Deal and moving toward a sustainable economy in order to increase business opportunities with the blog.

In other words stop talking and start doing?

[xtrnuno41]

Ha, there comes in the forcing power for Thailand, the USE.

The clowns like in USA, forcing.

They will help, no way Jose.

No one ever is forcing about the pollution of the oceans ! Screaming about the air, but nothing about plastics in  oceans.

5000000 TONS of plastic every year in oceans ! Guess what there are organisms in the oceans providing oxygen.

5 islands of plastics, as big as Texas, floating in the oceans, specifically Great Ocean, due to currents.

Can you imagine 5000000 TONS of plastic?! Every year! Those are criminals getting rich on dumping.

Now they are dumping clothes on land, Africa, South America. Brand new clothes, piles of 5 meter high.  

Yesterday i red, they already found plastic in humans blood !

 I already mentioned once, Thailand to make H2 by solar panels. 

And if Thailand would invest in big machinery, they can gather all biological stuf for green energy and not big fires every year which pollute all Thailand. However , no, Thailand needs U boats and new F-35's.  

[TheScience]

3 minutes ago, xtrnuno41 said:

plastics in  oceans.

5000000 TONS of plastic every year in oceans !

Totally agree. Absolutely dire and easily fixable.

 

EV you'd have to be a complete idiot to have a fully ev in Thailand.

 

Pollution gets worse by the year and a huge part of that is government transport.

 

Those electric buses were complete <deleted> I'm not certain any are running now.

 

NGV is a far better solution. It's clean and Thailand has a bit of gas in country.

 

I think green is just a scam. Let the industries develop on their own and without government subsidies then in a free and open market compete to sell their products.

 

Oil shortage is just fiction. Plenty of oil for 50 years.

[TooMuchTime]

LMAO EU go home.  No one cares or wants your policy.

 

EU should just import more "refugees" and not meddle with Thailand.