Ever more visible, climate change are eroding Thailand. What Thailand's new government need to do to avoid the worst outcomes? Sarinee Achavanuntak propose 10 most urgent climate finance policies for the new government.
Thailand's NDC 3.0 mentions “just transition” for the first time. But the question remains: how can we ensure that this becomes a real just transition and advances climate justice in practice? Sarinee proposes three recommendations to align Thailand’s Climate Fund with the principles referenced in NDC 3.0.
Thailand ranked 30th in year's list of countries that are most vulnerable to climate change, but still lacks a clear picture of the current climate finance flows in the country.
For those who advocate for more timely and meaningful climate finance commensurate with the increasingly cataclysmic impact of climate change, the year 2025 seems to begin on a rocky start. Early last month, 11 large US and Canadian banks exited the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), the UN-backed coalition of banks that claim their dedication […]
On Jan 10, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced that 2024 was the warmest year on record, likely the first year with a global mean temperature of more than 1C above the 1850-1900 average. Despite the alarming fact, the year 2025 is not off to a good start. The same week that WMO made that […]
By many accounts, Thailand consistently ranks among the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. The oft-cited Global Climate Risk Index by GermanWatch ranked Thailand’s long-term climate risk in 2021 as 9th in the world. Thailand is one of the 10 most flood-affected countries in the world, and the risks it faces are […]
Once occupying a tiny fraction of global financial markets, “green bonds” have grown exponentially in the past decade to become one of the world’s fastest-growing asset classes. In February 2024, Bloomberg reported that total impact bond issuance — a catch-all word to include green, social, sustainability, and sustainability-linked bonds, but more on these later — […]
In an earlier article in this space, I mentioned that "the Bank of Thailand should integrate [Thailand] taxonomy into its reporting and disclosure regulations for the financial sector, as the EU has done, because the public scrutiny of activities in the banking sector can and should be part of the learning process on the journey towards greener finance".
As demands for climate finance increase with the tangible impacts of climate change, people increasingly look to the government and various regulators to establish and upgrade a more effective combination of rules, regulations and market-based mechanisms to spur investments at a scale that is commensurate to our needs.
As I am writing this in early August, climate finance is becoming a trendier topic in Thailand’s financial and business sector. I suspect this is partly due to two recent developments: the upcoming Climate Change Act (the draft of which is making the rounds via public hearing sessions), and the Excise Department’s announcement in June […]