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THAILAND SECOND NATIONAL COMMUNICATION
The Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT OF SNC
From INC to SNC Thailand submitted her INC in 2000 Proposal for the SNC was prepared in 2005 and
approved in 2006 The SNC project was started in Oct. 2007 The political circumstance and government
restructuring resulted in actual implementation of the project in 2008.
The Role of SNC From INC, Thailand had established National Strategy
on Climate Change for 2008-2012. At present, Thailand have utilized some results from
SNC to apply for National Policy and Planning
KEY PLAYERS The office of Natural Resources and Environmental
Policy and Planning formed and Inter-Agency Committee (Project Steering Committee) to participate in the process of addressing climate change issues and preparing SNC
CC Policy & Implementation Plan setting up process
SNCPSCNational Policy
& Implementation
Plan
Committees
INC National Strategy
Mitigation
Adaptation
National CC Board
Public Participation
Support policy
THE PROGRESS
The project is at the middle stage Inventory
Activity data are being collectedMethodologies are being finalizedCapacity building is commenced
V&AClimate scenarios are completed Impact analysis is being carried out
MitigationMethodologies are being finalized
EXPECTED RESULTS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Inventory Broadly similar to earlier estimates, with energy increasing
share
The key vulnerable areas Agricultural area in northeast region at Chee-Mun river basin.
- food crops, energy crops : rice, cassava, sugarcane, corn
- environment & ecology : complex river-based ecosystem
- water resources : water quality, quantity change
- land use : agriculture
- disaster : severe flood/drought
- health : malaria, dengue fewer
EXPECTED RESULTS & ACHIEVEMENTS
The key vulnerable areas
Coastal areas in Southern region
- coastal change : worsen coastal erosion, loss of mangrove, ecosystem
- disaster : frequency and severe cyclone/
typhoon - water resources : intrusion of saltwater, increase salinity of underground water - land use : land use change - socioeconomic and tourism: loss of tourism attraction area
EXPECTED RESULTS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Developing policies and measures and integration to development programme as well.
InventoryTraining inter-agencies to collect and record
more detail activity data in some sectorsMore researches on local emission factors
MitigationNational policy and action plan on energy
conservation, energy efficiency, renewable energy
EXPECTED RESULTS & ACHIEVEMENTS
V&A National level Strengthened human resources and learning process,
social protection system and empower local communities.
Integration of adaptation measures with natural hazard reduction and disaster prevention programmes.
Improve effective programs by addressing local needs Public policy on water management of this region. Improve the resilience of crop production system to
climate extremes.
Local level Early warning and preparedness Appropriate farming practices: planting suitable crop
varieties. Alternative livelihood activities Appropriate tourism activities Water resource management by local people Local community ecosystem management
CONSTRAINTS AND CHALLENGES
Constraints:
Still have high uncertainties for model simulations, difficulties for considering policy and plan for future climate risk.
Scale/scoping adaptation project is not well-integrated into the national policy and development plans
Difficulty in socio economic vulnerability assessment
Time lag between communicationsMaintaining experts are difficult
CONSTRAINTS AND CHALLENGES (CONT’D)
Challenges: How to enhance technical research to support
NC process How to strengthen capacity to address socio-
economic aspects of CC How to effectively mainstream CC into national
development process How to enhance adaptive capacity How to improve resolution and uncertainties How to reduce time lag between NCs
RECOMMENDATIONS
Maintain/enhance research capacity through networking/cooperation
Strengthen socio-economic aspect of CC Enhance effectively adaptation policy
framework process Strengthen regional/subregional technical
capacity, especially on V&A Promote subregional SNC networking
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION