UN climate summit informed by the culture minister that the nation intends to increase performance.
Discussed: 20 Nov 2024 at 20: 38
According to Chalermchai Sri-on, the secretary of natural solutions and setting, Thailand does work to reduce its emissions of harmful chemicals because a follow-up to the 2015 Paris climate agreement shows how far the nation’s work have fallen short of its goal.
At the UN’s Baku, Azerbaijan, COP29 weather conference, Mr. Chalermchai made the remarks on Tuesday.
The conference is scheduled to wrap up on Friday, but it may move on because participants are also negotiating financing options to assist developing nations in addressing climate-related issues.
Near-universal progress has been made in climate action, according to the “global survey” of countries ‘ performance since the Paris Agreement was signed. However, the world is still not on track to reach the long-term goal of reducing pre-industrial warming by 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit.
Additionally, the survey found that some nations were unable to “mobilize and align the necessary financial flows,” and that not enough nations had reached the required levels of resilience.
Countries ‘ nationalized contributions ( NDCs ), which are used as the UN’s reference for the climate actions, including emissions reductions, that they intend to take by 2035, are reviewed and updated using the stocktake.
The NDCs 3.0, as they are known, are expected in 2025 and must be more optimistic than the existing priorities. According to Mr. Chalermchai, they may be the final chance to keep the world within the 1.5C destination.
” We plan to reduce GHG]greenhouse gas ] emissions to below 270 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent against the 2019 level economy-wide by 2035″, he told the conference.
The application of NDC 3.0 will be supported by a comprehensive natural investment plan. Also, we will raise the GHG drop in land use, land-use alter and forestry by 120 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2037″.
Thailand is one of the nations most susceptible to the effects of climate change, according to Mr. Chalermchai.
” We have suffered record-breaking warmth of 43 degrees Fahrenheit, flash flood due to heavy rainfall, as well as floods, causing irreversible damage to our business and incomes. This includes grass loss, which may result in a decline in habitat populations of about 50 % in less than six decades, he said.
Thailand emits less than 1 % of the nation’s greenhouse gases.
The minister stated that the government is determined to improve its mitigation efforts and preserve the concept of shared but distinct responsibilities and individual capabilities in order to achieve the NDC 2030 aim by reducing GHG emissions by 222 million tons of similar carbon dioxide in five sectors.
Those industries are electricity, transport, waste, business process and product use, and agribusiness, he added.