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Kultida Bunjongsiri, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, ThailandJirat Bunjongsiri, South-East Asia University, Thailand
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Thailand is facing several sustainability challenges. These include raising the national income, improving livelihood, health, education, and safety; supplying essential infrastructure like power, water, and mobility; and guaranteeing clean air, land, and water. They all compete for scarce financial, human, and intellectual resources, along with a host of others. However, many of these have a direct impact on a city's carbon emissions, and investments in these services may be jeopardized if the causes and consequences of climate change are not addressed. Through lessons learned and obstacles overcome, this article explains Thailand’s low-emission development initiatives in order to understand the country’s capacity to pursue a low-carbon growth pathway. Governmental systems are becoming more and more integrated with climate change adaptation and mitigation, which is consistent with the growing importance of climate activities on national agendas. In Thailand, interministerial committees have been set up to oversee the development and implementation of climate policies in addition to comprehensive national monitoring, assessment, and reporting mechanisms. Institutional and human capacity limitations persist in all major entities, including those in the public, private, and governmental sectors. Thailand’s policy talks have focused mostly on specific concerns like carbon credit trading or afforestation for carbon absorption, with little attention paid to important topics like liberalizing the electric power business and establishing a carbon price. The two possibilities are really a carbon tax system and a cap and trade system, often known as the emission trading system. However, in practice, every technique has advantages and disadvantages.
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Conference: ACSS2025Stream: Sustainability
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Bunjongsiri K., & Bunjongsiri J. (2025) Transition to Low Carbon Cities: Lessons Learned and Challenges Being Met for the Case of Thailand ISSN: 2186-2303 – The Asian Conference on the Social Sciences 2025: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 155-167) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-2303.2025.14
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-2303.2025.14
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