The document outlines Thailand's National Strategy on Climate Change from 2008-2012. The strategy includes 6 main approaches: 1) Build capacity to adapt and reduce vulnerabilities to climate change impacts, 2) Support greenhouse gas emissions reduction and increase carbon sinks, 3) Support research on climate change, 4) Raise public awareness, 5) Build institutional capacity, and 6) Support international cooperation. Specifically, it aims to reduce emissions in the energy, waste, industrial, and agricultural sectors through greater efficiency and clean technologies, while increasing carbon sinks through forestation and conservation efforts.

1. Thailand’s National Strategy
on Climate Change
Aree Wattana Tummakird
Office of Natural Resources and
Environmental Policy and Planning (ONEP)
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment

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“ National Strategy on
Climate Change B.E. 2551-2555
(2008 - 2012) ”

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STRATEGY 1 Build capacity to adapt and reduce vulnerabilities to
climate change impacts
STRATEGY 2 Support greenhouse gas emissions reduction and add
more carbon dioxide sinks on integrity development
STRATEGY 3 Support research and development to better
understand climate change, its impacts and adaptation and
mitigation options
STRATEGY 4 Raise awareness and promote public participation
STRATEGY 6 Support international cooperation to achieve the common goal
of climate change mitigation and sustainable development
STRATEGY 5 Build capacity of relevant personnel and institutions
and establish a framework of coordination and integration
“National Strategy on Climate Change B.E.
2551- 2555 (2008 - 2012)”

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STRATEGY 2 :
Support greenhouse gas emissions reduction
and add more carbon dioxide sinks on integrity
development
 Objective :
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and
improve production technology base to clean
technology

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1. Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
in energy sector
 Increase efficiency electricity use and
production
- Increasing efficiency of electricity generation
system from fossil fuel power plant
- Reducing energy loss in transmission system
and distribution system
- Supporting production and use of energy efficient
in machine and electric equipment in business,
civic and government sector

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- Promoting electricity saving activity in
private, civic and government sector
- Supporting improvement and building of
energy saving building, including
household building, office building and
commercial building
- Supporting the motivation of increase
efficiency of production and energy use

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Increase efficiency of energy using
and saving in transportation sector
- Promoting travel by mass transit system
- Promoting travel by walking for motorcycle in
short distance
- Reducing travel wanted by communication
support in private sector and government sector
- Controlling amount of private vehicle using in the
high traffic area

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- Specific fuel economy standards along with new
vehicle standards improving, including private
vehicle and mass transit
- Promoting engine maintenance in order to save
energy, including private vehicles and mass
transit
- Developing and promoting efficiency
transportation system by logistics management
- Supporting in the motivation increase efficiency
in energy using transportation sector

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 Supporting and developing alternative
energy use
- Promoting surveying and potential evaluation
and prioritizing of alternative energy source for
commercial use development, including make
bio-energy map
- Promoting energy plants
- Developing alternative energy technology to
complete with the price of fossil fuel
- Supporting production and usage of alternative
energy without making greenhouse gas
emissions

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- Improving law, rule, regulations and formulating
economical measures in order to create
motivation and helpful for
- electricity generation and usage from alternative
energy source, including alternative energy without
making greenhouse gas emissions
- bio- energy production and usage
- alternative energy production technology
development and usage in household and industrial
sector

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2.Reducing greenhouse gas
emissions in waste sector
 Reducing waste amount from source
- Improving law, rule, regulations and formulating
economical measures in order to create
motivation on waste reduction from industrial,
agriculture, business and household sector
- Supporting deposit & refund system for plastic
bottles, glass bottles, aluminum bottle etc

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- Supporting decayable container use such as
bio-plastic
- Supporting entrepreneur to reduce waste
container use and promoting safety reuse
container
- Promoting sufficiency economy on consuming
- Promoting e-communication in order to
decrease paper, ink use in business and
government agencies
- Supporting waste reduction from source by life
cycle assessment and eco-design etc

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 Efficiency waste management
- Supporting provincial administrative organization
clustering in order to make waste management
system, reuse system or convert to electrical
energy
- Creating motivation in public sector to separate
the garbage
- Reducing outdoor burning
- Supporting the operation on clean development
mechanism in order to create motivation for
efficiently waste management and reduce
greenhouse gas

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3.Reducing greenhouse gas
emissions from industrial process
– Specifying the entrepreneur that produce a lot of
greenhouse gas such as cement production,
iron production etc. to put greenhouse gas
reduction plan and measures in the company’s
policy, and require to have yearly greenhouse
gas emissions evaluation

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– Promotion clean technology and environmental
friendly in production process by create the
motivation to the entrepreneur
– Formulating incentive measure for bank sector
to use environmental regulations for loan
approval consideration to the entrepreneur

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4. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
from agricultural process
– Promoting agricultural process improvement
among agriculturist by efficiency in utilization of
resources and less chemical use
– Developing low greenhouse gas emission for
agricultural management system
– Increasing efficiency in outdoor burning by
incentive measures and law measures
– Promoting animal food quality improvement, in
order to reduce greenhouse gas emission from
digestive system

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5. Adding more carbon sink
– Creating the motivation of growing economic
tree in private land for pulp industry and small
wood industry
– Promoting conservation, rehabilitation and
increase area of mangrove forest. In order to be
carbon sink and reduce coastal scouring
– Promoting wood saving and use wood material
substitute
– Reducing steps of forest gardening, in order to
create motivation of forest gardening

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– Promoting reforestation by “three type of forests
with four benefits” principle (edible, construction,
equipment wood/benefit: edible, construction,
equipment, conservation)
– Promoting increase of natural forest outside
forest conservation area, by supporting public
land used for community forest
– Promoting green area development at every
level
– Monitoring and evaluation of forest plantation
results by private and public sector, in order to
specify forest plantation extension plan

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6. Creating and supporting the proper
mechanism in order to push greenhouse
gas emissions reduction by improving
production technology base to clean
technology
– Improving the consideration criterion for clean
development mechanism project of each sector,
and considering about greenhouse gas emission
reduction, sustainable development and
production technology base improving to a clean
technology
– Formulating regulations, rules and measures on
carbon credit trading

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For more information, contact:
Climate Change Coordination Office
Office of Natural Resources and
Environmental Policy and Planning (ONEP)
60/1 Soi Pibunwattana 7 Rama 6 Road
Samsennai Payathai Bangkok 10400
Tel: +66 2 265 6612
Fax: +66 2 265 6602
Website: http://www.onep.go.th/cdm