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COP29 (The 29th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)) drew controversy since the first day it was convened. First, the venue of the meeting was located in Azerbaijan, the world’s 18th largest oil exporter and 24th largest oil producer.
Second, the event was highly expected from the first day that it would help deliver a replacement of the current climate finance, which remains vague since its birth in COP15 in 2009. This prompted the event to be dubbed as “finance COP”.
The so-called New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG) was aimed at reframing the climate finance, which was first set at around US $100 billion a year out of the promises from developed countries to support climate action of developing countries. With climate disasters taking place more intensely, the needs for climate finance, however, are growing five times or more, or at least US $500 billion to one trillion a year.
Last but not least is the so-called “fossil fuel fights”, under which countries lockhorned in the future of what agreed in COP28; “transitioning away from fossil fuels”.
All these have come down to a broad term of climate justice, under which policymakers as well as climate justice advocates are trying to come to terms with it at all fronts amid all differences they have.
Realising what the outcomes of this COP mean to the future of the planet and people, including Thai citizens, the Dialogue Forum would cordially like to invite you to take this opportunity to explore COP29 and the way forward together in the Dialogue Forum 3 of Year 5: Post COP29 and the Way Forward at SEA-Junction, 4th Floor, BACC.
Please confirm in advance for a seat at the forum at this form:
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Programm
10.00 a.m. Registration
10.20 a.m. Brief introduction of the forum
10.25 a.m. Overview: Thorny Issues and Outcomes at COP29 and Thailand’s Future Climate Policies
MQDC, and IPCC report author
10.40 a.m. Forum Discussion: Post COP29 and the Way Forward
- Representative from the Department of Climate Change and Environment (DCCE)
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Witsanu Attavanich, Lecturer, Economics Faculty, Kasetsart University
- Dr. Saowaruj Rattanakhamfu, Research Director, Innovation Policy for Sustainable Development, Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI)
- Asst. Prof. Chol Bunnag, Director, SDG Move (Centre for SDG Research and Support), Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University
- Dr. Pakpoom Lohavaritanon, Director, Centre for Natural Resources and Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, Thammasat University
- Ms. Saniwan Buaban, Party-list MP, People’s Party and a committee member of the Lower House’s Standing Committee on Natural and Public Disasters Prevention and Mitigation
Ms. Orapin Lilitwisitwong, Freelance Journalist and News Editor
12.00 p.m. Q&A
12.30 p.m. Wrap-up and closing of the session
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