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PM: Thailand will move ahead with plan to tackle climate change
COPENHAGEN, Dec 18 (TNA) - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva stressed Saturday that Thailand will move ahead with its own plan to tackle climate change despite the failure of the Copenhagen summit.
Mr Abhisit was attending the 15th session of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP15) and the 5th Conference of Parties serving as the meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP5) at Copenhagen, Denmark.
The marathon talks at the Bella Center decided merely took note of a new accord, a non-binding deal for combating global warming led by the United States, China, India, Brazil and South Africa.
The Thai premier said even though the meeting could not reach concrete measures, Thailand would follow its plan to fight climate change.
Thailand had detailed the measures in its 11th National Economic and Social Development Plan and its Energy Development Plan, he said.
He earlier told the High Level Segment (HLS) of COP15 and CMP5 that Thailand has incorporated the issue of climate change into its development and planning process, notably in successive National Economic and Social Development Plans for the periods 2007-2011 and 2012-2016 respectively.
These plans aim to move economy towards a new growth model -- "a low carbon economy" -- by restructuring the production sector towards low carbon, promoting green transportation and logistics, restructuring the agricultural sector to promote sustainable and organic agriculture, as well as changing the pattern of public consumption towards more environmentally-friendly products.
Moreover, he said, Thailand is implementing the "15-year National Alternative Energy Development Plan (2008-2022)," which aims to increase the share of alternative energy to 20 per cent of final energy consumption in the country by the year 2022.
Accordingly, the green house gasses emission will be substantially reduced from alternative energy and from more efficient use of energy as a whole.
In addition, to increase the carbon sink, Thailand has set the ambitious target to increase its national forest cover from 30 per cent in 2006 up to 40 per cent by 2020.
At present, there are 228 protected areas and plans to establish more in the future. The constant effort on forest conservation and protection as well as reforestation programmes through action and implementation plans to promote peoples participation is one of the key successes in the government’s efforts to reach its target.
The 193 nations stopped far from a full endorsement of the plan, which sets a target of limiting global warming to a maximum 2 degree Celsius rise over pre-industrial times and holds out the prospect of US$100 billion in annual aid from 2020 for developing nations.
The plan does not specify greenhouse gas cuts needed to achieve the 2 Celsius goal that is seen as a threshold for dangerous changes such as more floods, droughts, mudslides, sandstorms and rising seas.
Asked whether the deadlock resulted from each country not easing their conditions, Mr Abhisit admitted that each nation had different limitations. Tackling climate change was a common responsibility but each country could depend on their own readiness and economic factors. (TNA)
Mr Abhisit was attending the 15th session of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP15) and the 5th Conference of Parties serving as the meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP5) at Copenhagen, Denmark.
The marathon talks at the Bella Center decided merely took note of a new accord, a non-binding deal for combating global warming led by the United States, China, India, Brazil and South Africa.
The Thai premier said even though the meeting could not reach concrete measures, Thailand would follow its plan to fight climate change.
Thailand had detailed the measures in its 11th National Economic and Social Development Plan and its Energy Development Plan, he said.
He earlier told the High Level Segment (HLS) of COP15 and CMP5 that Thailand has incorporated the issue of climate change into its development and planning process, notably in successive National Economic and Social Development Plans for the periods 2007-2011 and 2012-2016 respectively.
These plans aim to move economy towards a new growth model -- "a low carbon economy" -- by restructuring the production sector towards low carbon, promoting green transportation and logistics, restructuring the agricultural sector to promote sustainable and organic agriculture, as well as changing the pattern of public consumption towards more environmentally-friendly products.
Moreover, he said, Thailand is implementing the "15-year National Alternative Energy Development Plan (2008-2022)," which aims to increase the share of alternative energy to 20 per cent of final energy consumption in the country by the year 2022.
Accordingly, the green house gasses emission will be substantially reduced from alternative energy and from more efficient use of energy as a whole.
In addition, to increase the carbon sink, Thailand has set the ambitious target to increase its national forest cover from 30 per cent in 2006 up to 40 per cent by 2020.
At present, there are 228 protected areas and plans to establish more in the future. The constant effort on forest conservation and protection as well as reforestation programmes through action and implementation plans to promote peoples participation is one of the key successes in the government’s efforts to reach its target.
The 193 nations stopped far from a full endorsement of the plan, which sets a target of limiting global warming to a maximum 2 degree Celsius rise over pre-industrial times and holds out the prospect of US$100 billion in annual aid from 2020 for developing nations.
The plan does not specify greenhouse gas cuts needed to achieve the 2 Celsius goal that is seen as a threshold for dangerous changes such as more floods, droughts, mudslides, sandstorms and rising seas.
Asked whether the deadlock resulted from each country not easing their conditions, Mr Abhisit admitted that each nation had different limitations. Tackling climate change was a common responsibility but each country could depend on their own readiness and economic factors. (TNA)
