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Fri, 03/11/2011 - 13:17
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Thailand on 14th rank at risk of climate change
BANGKOK, March 11 (TNA) - Thailand has become the world’s 14th most vulnerable country to climate change, judging from predictions which cover the next 30 years.
Setaput Suttiwatnarueput, Executive Vice President of the Thai Business and Economy Research Centre, has reported the results of a national study aimed to assess volatile weather conditions around the world, confirming that Thailand was one of 170 countries ranked, with Bangladesh topping the category.
Setaput also recalled another study in 2007 showing that Thailand appeared to be the world’s 25th top emitter of greenhouse gases, with Bangkok alone churning up at least 43 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually. The same level of greenhouse gases emission was recorded in London, but with an economy almost 10 times larger.
Impacts of drastic changes believed to have stemmed from the global warming problem were also prevalent in the Thai tourism, particularly from the bleaching of corals in the country's southern Adaman region, an area which houses at least five million international tourists annually, or about 1 out of 3 international visitors to the Kingdom.
The vice president of the centre urged Thailand's major industries, particularly those in the transport, petroleum, and cement manufacturing sectors, to begin taking sizeable steps towards the replacement of their current production technologies with new ones which will cause fewer carbon emissions in order to help steer the country toward a “green economy”. (TNA)
Setaput Suttiwatnarueput, Executive Vice President of the Thai Business and Economy Research Centre, has reported the results of a national study aimed to assess volatile weather conditions around the world, confirming that Thailand was one of 170 countries ranked, with Bangladesh topping the category.
Setaput also recalled another study in 2007 showing that Thailand appeared to be the world’s 25th top emitter of greenhouse gases, with Bangkok alone churning up at least 43 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually. The same level of greenhouse gases emission was recorded in London, but with an economy almost 10 times larger.
Impacts of drastic changes believed to have stemmed from the global warming problem were also prevalent in the Thai tourism, particularly from the bleaching of corals in the country's southern Adaman region, an area which houses at least five million international tourists annually, or about 1 out of 3 international visitors to the Kingdom.
The vice president of the centre urged Thailand's major industries, particularly those in the transport, petroleum, and cement manufacturing sectors, to begin taking sizeable steps towards the replacement of their current production technologies with new ones which will cause fewer carbon emissions in order to help steer the country toward a “green economy”. (TNA)
