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Due to the climate change crisis, Thailand has ratified and become a party to the Paris Agreement

under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

As a result, Thailand is committed to fulfilling its international obligations, including reporting on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from sources and GHG removals by sinks, setting targets for reducing GHG emissions, and implementing measures to reduce domestic GHG emissions to meet these targets. Thailand has set the goals of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 and net-zero GHG emissions by 2065.

On August 18, 2023, a Royal Decree officially changed the name of the Department of Environmental Quality Promotion to the Department of Climate Change and Environment under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

This change aims to strengthen efforts to address the increasingly severe impacts of climate change, enhance the capacity of personnel and related officers, raise public awareness, promote collaboration and participation among various agencies, and take responsibility for collecting and compiling data for GHG emissions calculations and preparing GHG inventories for submission to the UNFCCC, based on Thailand’s capacity and readiness. Thailand, as a Non-Annex I Party under the UNFCCC, is obligated to submit a National Communication (NC) every four years and a Biennial Update Report (BUR) every two years.

Following the outcome of COP24 in Katowice, Poland, the reporting framework shifted to the Biennial Transparency Report (BTR), replacing the BUR.

The BTR includes national GHG inventory data, information required for tracking progress in achieving the country’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) targets, and data on adaptation measures and financial, technical, and capacity-building support as per the Paris Agreement guidelines. Thailand currently prepares GHG inventories following the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

According to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines, GHG emission sources and removal sinks are categorized into four sectors: (1) Energy, (2) Industrial Processes and Product Use (IPPU), (3) Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU), and (4) Waste. However, Thailand currently reports.

The 5 sectors are

Thailand faces several limitations and gaps in preparing its GHG inventories, affecting the overall data quality. The country is working to address these issues to improve transparency, accuracy, completeness, consistency, and comparability (TACCC). One key initiative is the development of a centralized digital platform for Thailand’s GHG database. The objectives of this platform are to collect, store, calculate, report, integrate, and provide GHG inventory data in collaboration with relevant agencies across the five sectors, and analyze and calculate GHG emissions based on IPCC standards at a single point. This platform will enable agencies to utilize the data for comprehensive climate change management planning and promote systematic data integration and disclosure following transparency standards, allowing government and civil society sectors to efficiently communicate, report, and access GHG inventory information.

DEPARTMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENT(DCCE).