Thailand has recognized the significance of climate change and global warming by becoming a member of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on 28 December 1994, and later ratifying itself with the Kyoto Protocol on 28 August 2002.

       Thailand signed on the ratification agreement with the UNFCCC and was placed in “Non-Annex I” category, a non-binding treaty of which has set no strict limitations on greenhouse gas emissions and enforcement conditions upon the member nation. In comparison to other industrialized countries, Thailand was able to cut down the level of greenhouse gas by 0.6 %, while contributing less per capita emission than the world’s average.

       These figures have suggested a great achievement for Thailand for being able to control and lower the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the earth’s atmosphere. However, the impacts of climate change and global warming that Thailand had suffered from in the past has now taken a whole different course, forcing the nation to deal with much worsened and more diverse circumstances including sea level, temperature, sanitation, biological diversity, drought, and flood all at once.

News source: The Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning