two years ago, I went shopping in a well known shopping centre, which interestingly, having a campaign to reduce the use of plastic bags. the campaign seems to aim at encouraging their customers to use re-usable carrier bags by giving away re-usable fabric bags, so that, as they see it, it helps reduce the effect of global warming. As I don't get to go back to thailand so often, I remember admiring the initiative and feeling good to see that the thai society (outside the academic and environm...

The cabinet will endorse the country's first strategic plan to combat climate change later this month, Science and Technology Minister Yongyuth Yuthavong said yesterday. The five-year plan will cover six areas and include promoting public awarenes

like people are starting to get the message that this govenment is not so clued in to what climate change is all about.

Nation Editorial December 20, 2007

Thailand must get up to speed on climate-change talks and develop a coherent policy to mitigate effects

After almost two weeks of talks at the UN Climate Change Summit in Bali, trying to shape a new global accord that will supersede the Kyoto Protocol, representatives of 187 nations came up with a disappointing four-page Bali declaration. As expected, European countries sought a binding commitment on reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 36 industriali