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Principle of voluntary cooperation not helping tackle climate change
“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 ...
Piyaporn Wongruang
UN climate talks ‘flawed’, could sabotage efforts
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 ...
Pratch Rujivanarom
Climate push comes to Bangkok
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 ...
Pratch Rujivanarom