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

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