Environment and natural resources

From its creation through its rise in the 1990s, the world has embraced plastic as an affordable and versatile material. By the time its impact on the environment and marine ecosystems became clear, plastic had conquered the world marketplace.Keep reading ...

The National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department is exploring opportunities to work with its partners in neighbouring countries to step up efforts to protect national parks with transboundary features.The department has invited forestry officials from Laos to join the two-day workshop on transboundary protected ...

“Building on the progress made so far, countries now need to take a decisive step forward in preparing the ambitious and balanced outcome that we need in Katowice [Poland],” executive secretary of UN Climate Change, Patricia Espinosa, said at a press conference in Bangkok on ...

Thailand has been ambitiously aiming to have 40 percent of its land turned into lush green forests, but this goal set in 1975 has yet to be accomplished.The aim was to have conserved forests cover 25 percent of the country and commercial forests cover the ...

Developing countries rounded on the United States and its allies at emergency climate talks Sunday (Sep 9), accusing the world’s richest nations of stalling a deal aimed at preventing runaway global warming.Experts from around the world have been locked in discussions this week in Bangkok, ...

An undemocratic and unfair negotiation mechanism in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will eventually lead to the failure of the landmark Paris Agreement, civic groups said yesterday.As the UNFCCC opens a meeting on climate change in Bangkok today to finalise the ...

Though Thailand has made impressive progress on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, it still faces many challenges and the large implementation gap on the global scale remains to be solved.  These facts have surfaced as Bangkok prepares to host the United Nations Framework Convention on ...

As Bangkok prepares to host climate-change talks, the sprawling city of more than 10 million is itself under siege from the environment, with dire forecasts warning it could be partially submerged in just over a decade.A preparatory meeting begins Tuesday (Sep 4) in Thailand’s capital ...

“At the heart of the success of wildlife conservation is the forest. With healthy forests and habitats, wild animals can survive. Such a principle is easily comprehensible even by those who do not have much knowledge.”Phong Leng-ei in his 80s still recalled vividly the principles ...

and the empowerment of local people to boost climate resilience, when they meet at a United Nations sponsored conference in Bangkok.Civil society organisations, activists and people affected by the adverse impact of climate change from across Thailand yesterday gathered at Chulalongkorn University to talk about ...