Thai-German Climate Programme: TGCP

CONTEXT

Thailand is one of the countries vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. It has therefore articulated ambitious national targets to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and increase resilience. In the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), Thailand committed to reducing 20-25% of emissions from the energy, transport, waste and industry sectors by 2030 below business as usual. In the field of adaptation, water management, agriculture, health, natural resource management, tourism and human settlements have been defined as priority areas.

OBJECTIVE

To improve national framework conditions for the NDC implementation. To this end, the transition towards a low-carbon and climate-resilient development is being fostered.

APPROACHES

The TGCP supports Thailand through a cross-sectoral approach in selected sectors: climate policy, agriculture, energy, wasteand wastewater management and water including the climate finance of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to drive the climate actions in Thailand. Capitalizing on GIZ’s close and long-standing cooperation with Thai partners, the team works closely with key partner ministries which receive tailor-made support in relation to the NDCs.

For the overall programme coordination, the Policy component ensures alignment between the different sectors, thus providing coherent and systematic cross-sectoral support on the topic of the Thai NDC operationalization.

Moreover, synergies between the sectors are utilized and coherence is guaranteed through joint activities between the sectors.

TGCP supports and engages key ministries and agencies in providing support in 5 key fields of work:

• National climate-relevant policy development and integration into several sectors
• Sub-national implementation
• Measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) and monitoring & evaluation (M&E)
• Climate financing
• International cooperation

RESULTS SO FAR

The results contributed by sectoral components are as follows

• Climate policy (through the TGCP – Policy)
• Agriculture (through the TGCP – Agriculture)
• Energy (through the TGCP – Energy)
• Waste (through the TGCP – Waste)
• Water (through the TGCP – Water)
• Green Climate Fund Readiness

FINANCED BY

German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV)

COUNTRY

Thailand

PROJECT PARTNERS

• Office of the Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning (ONEP)
• Pollution Control Department (PCD)
• Department of Water Resources (DWR)
• Office of the National Water Resources (ONWR)
• Rice Department (RD)
• Office of the Permanent Secretary of Energy
• Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE)
• Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MoAC)

PROJECT DURATION

January 2018 – December 2022