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Dear Readers,
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This newsletter is the last for 2018, as usual, it presents updates on activities across the topics in which we are involved in, among them agriculture and food security, energy, waste management, urban & industrial development and more. We hope you will enjoy browsing through it as we move towards 2019.
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Also of note is that GIZ Training Services Bangkok has added some new courses for the coming year. Check them out at http://training.thai-german-cooperation.info/index.php/training.
For more regular updates, please visit us at: www.thai-german-cooperation.info
and www.facebook.com/gizthailand.
Best regards,
Your newsletter team
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Agriculture & Food Safety
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Thai-German Climate Programme - Agriculture
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Adaptive spatial planning put in action to tackle climate change
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- Office and Natural Resources and Policy and Planning and Department of Public Works and Country & Town Planning discuss operational plan to support adaptive spatial planning.
- A 5-year operational plan is laid out to incorporate climate adaptation actions into business-as-usual plans and budget.
- Adaptive spatial guidelines are expected from 2 pilot areas as concrete results.
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Risk-based National Adaptation Plan
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Researchers support shaping Thailand's policy on food loss and waste
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- Food loss and food waste data in Thailand is relatively limited.
- The Thai government targets 5% reduction in food loss and food waste from 2020 onwards.
- The examples from the "Towards SDG 12.3 Food Loss and Waste" workshop can serve as a starting point for Thailand's data collection process.
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Thai-German Climate Programme - Waste
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More Ambitious Targets: Key takeaways from the public lecture on the IPCC Special Report
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- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report calls on countries to take on greater responsibilities to limit temperature increase.
- "If emissions continue at their present rate, human-induced warming will exceed 1.5°C by around 2040," the IPCC finds.
- Dr. Rosa T. Perez, a lead co-author of the report, said national pledges are not enough to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
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Thai-German Climate Programme - Climate Policy
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Mobilising climate finance to implement the Thai Nationally Determined Contribution
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- Finance will be a major enabling factor to avoid increasing high environmental risks for communities and economies.
- Thailand will need to mobilise domestic and international finance to achieve its mitigation and adaptation targets.
- Mobilising the domestic budget and private investments to help respond to climate change is a key focus of the Thai government.
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Thai-German Climate Programme - Climate Policy
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Every detail counts: GIZ prepares Thailand for access to international climate fund
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- Thailand will need to have adequate institutions in place to meet all the requirements to gain access to the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
- GIZ is supporting the Thai Environmental Fund in gaining access to GCF.
- The Readiness programme helps develop national strategies for private sector involvement and Nationally Determined Contribution implementation framework.°C.
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Green Climate Fund Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme
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Thailand Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (RAC NAMA)
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New energy tool to help Thai provinces optimise target energy mix
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- The Provincial Energy Modelling Tool is an energy modelling platform that helps make decisions on an optimised target energy mix.
- The tool calculates energy scenarios based on Thai energy database.
- Thai Provincial Energy offices can benefit from accurate demand and supply projections for their areas.
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Thai-German Climate Programme - Energy
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Regional Cooperation Programme to Improve the Quality and Labour Market Orientation of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (RECOTVET)
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Thai-German Trilateral Cooperation Programme
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Environment & Natural Resources
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SWITCH-Asia SCP Facility kicks start new phase
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- SWITCH-Asia Sustainable Consumption and Production Facility launches second phase.
- A regional networking event was held on the same day as the launch and will be organised annually.
- The programme has reached more than 30,000 micro, small and medium enterprises in its operation, leading to major economic gains.
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SWITCH-Asia Sustainable Consumption and Production Facility (SCP Facility)
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Thai-German Climate Programme - Water
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Urban & Industrial Development
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Integrated Resource Management in Asian Cities: the Urban NEXUS
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Mongolia learns from Germany to build waste incineration
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- Mongolia is planning an incineration plant.
- The National Development Agency (NDA) advises the Mongolian Government on how to proceed on technological aspects and financing mechanisms.
- A Mongolian Delegation from NDA and Ulan Bator Municipality visit Germany to learn solid waste management and waste incineration.
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Integrated Resource Management in Asian Cities: the Urban NEXUS
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Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia's capital city, plans to go green by 2050
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- Ulaanbaatar currently faces challenges in combating air pollution and transformation of the current energy system.
- The study finds that photovoltaic and wind will be the main energy sources for Ulaanbaatar City in 2050.
- Only 18-25% of energy will remain to be supplied by a highly efficient coal-fired power plant.
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Integrated Resource Management in Asian Cities: the Urban NEXUS
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UPCOMING TRAINING COURSES
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