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Thailand’s Climate Change Adaptation

Progress

LEG Regional Training Workshop in NAPs for the Asian Region

08.2015

Kollawat Sakhakara, Ph.D. Climate Change Coordination and Management Division

Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment

No Legal Binding / Framework

Cabinet approved Climate Change Master Plan (CCMP) 2015-2050 • Adaptation is 1 of the 3 principal issues under CCMP • Adaptation’s 6 concerned sectors

• Water management, Flood and Drought • Agriculture and Food Security • Human Health • Tourism • Natural Resources • Human Settlement and Security

• 2-year project of developing NAP (launched in January 2015) • 2 phases of NAP development

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Project-based Adaptation

CCMP

NAP • UNDP: MADRiD

Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

Bridging Gaps and Needs

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#1 #2

07.2015 10.2015 2016

• GIZ-BMUB: • CCMP Implementation • Risk-NAP Support

• JICA: ADAP-T project

• Line Ministries Climate Change Strategic plans: MOH, MOAC

• MOEJ: NAP workshop (tentatively)

Resilient

Sustainable

1st Phase NAP Outcomes (in progress)

1. Vulnerability database

• Gaps and Needs • Priority List • Methodologies

2. Vulnerability Circumstance

3. Suggestions of drafting NAP

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1st Phase NAP Outcomes (in progress)

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1st Phase NAP Outcomes (in progress)

Impact on Drought Impact on Flood

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1st Phase NAP Outcomes (in progress)

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1st Phase NAP Outcomes (in progress)

(DRAFTED)

NAP

Projected Vulnerability Circumstance

Vulnerability Database Suggestions of

drafted NAP

Technologies

Government projects

Int’l projects

Local wisdom R & D

Research &

Studies Innovation

Preparation Plan

Protection and mitigation projects

Recovery Plans

Existing Knowledge

Participation

Int’l Funded Projects

Co-benefit

Royal Projects

Beliefs

National Archives of

Adaptation

Methodologies

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2nd Phase NAP Outcomes (2016)

• Local research and studies

• Data Accessibility/Availability • Contribution and Standardization of Databases • Indigenous Knowledge Database • Knowledge and Awareness Gaps • Socio-Economic Co-benefits Linkages • Inadequate Financial Supports

Constraints and Opportunities

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Thank you

Climate Change Coordination and Management Division Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning

Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Phibulwatana 7 Rama VI Rd., Prayathai District, BKK 10400 Thailand

T/F: 66 2265 6692, 66 2265 6500 ext. 6842 / www.onep.go.th

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