T HAILAND S ECOND N ATIONAL C OMMUNICATION The Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment

B ACKGROUND 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 The political circumstance and government restructuring resulted in actual implementation of the project in The Role of SNC From INC, Thailand had established National Strategy on Climate Change for At present, Thailand have utilized some results from SNC to apply for National Policy and Planning

K EY P LAYERS 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 SNC PSC National Policy & Implementation Plan Committees INC National Strategy Mitigation Adaptation National CC Board Public Participation Support policy

T HE P ROGRESS The project is at the middle stage Inventory Activity data are being collected Methodologies are being finalized Capacity building is commenced V&A Climate scenarios are completed Impact analysis is being carried out Mitigation Methodologies 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. Inventory Training inter-agencies to collect and record more detail activity data in some sectors More researches on local emission factors Mitigation National 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

C ONSTRAINTS AND C HALLENGES 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 communications Maintaining 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

R ECOMMENDATIONS 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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