What is the Thai governments response to that?
Climate change is not at the top of Thailand’s national agenda. Changes in policy that have contributed to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions have not been made to prevent climate change but in order to economise. Renewable energies, particularly biofuels for the transportation sector, are being promoted to reduce the dependency on diesel and oil imports. Renewable energies are being promoted to some extent but concrete measures to support their implementation are still missing. Emissions reduction is not part of development plans. The government’s main focus is on economic and energy security – which includes the promotion of carbon intensive industries such as steel and coal-fired power plants. The only policy that deals with the reduction of emissions is the promotion of nuclear power. The government argues that nuclear energy does not emit greenhouse gases. In this way, it uses the issue of climate change to support and justify its own policies while other impacts are not bein
