• Thai German Climate Programme– Agriculture project encourages farmers to shift towards low-emission rice production to fight against global warming.
• “Laser land leveling” is a proven mitigation technology that helps reduce the amount of time and volume of water needed for rice planting.
• Besides good taste and cheap prices, global consumers have started caring about food safety and environmentally friendly cultivation.

• Farmers learned new practices for better yields in training under the Sustainable Aromatic Rice Initiative Thailand project.
• Farmers in Roi-Et province save production costs and reduce greenhouse gas impacts by controlling weeds, pests, fertiliser and soil fertility.
• Participating farmers cut transportation costs by selling their rice paddy to the millers at collection points.

• The website contains useful information in relation to the Green Climate Fund and Thailand GCF procedures.
• Useful publications are available for download in both Thai and English at http://gcf.onep.go.th
• The website is developed by the Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning and GCF Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme.

• The rulebook will turn the Paris Agreement into action.
• The Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning is working on a guideline for Thailand, translating modalities, procedures and guidelines adopted at COP 24.
• Developed nations pledge additional funds for the Green Climate Fund.

• Thai tourism agencies, associations and research houses are trained in and work on coping with the impacts of climate change on tourism.
• Thailand’s key climate factors, ways of segmenting tourism systems, tourism priorities and key risk are identified.
• Thailand ranked the 10th most popular destination in the world for tourists and the country with the 4th highest income from tourism in 2017.

• The “Sustainable Freight Transport and Logistics in the Mekong Region” project exceeded its target by working with more than 500 SMEs.
• The project has also successfully improved fuel saving and safe driving, the safe transport of dangerous goods and the development of business plans for access to finance.

• Sufficiency Economy Philosophy (SEP) concept can be applied to any development work, but needs to be in line with context.
• Applying the SEP to a project management is to “Find the real causes, not sticking to theories and engaging target groups”.
• Application of Result-Based Management principles and tools help plan the project systematically, solve problems promptly and implement successfully.

• More than 150 master trainers have been trained and in turn, have trained more than 1,000 in-company trainers in 8 countries over the past 5 years.
• The Senior Officials Meeting on Education and the Senior Labour Officials Meeting’s Working Group on Progressive Labour Practices to Enhance the Competitiveness of ASEAN endorse the Standard for In-Company Trainers in ASEAN.
• Public and private sector representatives review the past year’s progress and achievements and draft national action plans for 2019.

• CO2 emissions from the transportation sector account for 19.2 per cent of the total greenhouse gas emissions in Thailand.
• CO2 based excise tax boosted improvements in fuel consumption from 7.08 litres per 100 km in 2015 to 6.75 litres per 100 km in 2017 for all new cars sold.
• With some reasonable adjustments to fuel economy policies, Thailand could more than double the impact of its policies and reduce an additional 4.75 million tonnes CO2 equivalent in 2030.

• Bicol State College of Applied Sciences and Technology of the Philippines and King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi of Thailand collaborate on student exchange.
• The exchange programme allows students and professors from the two institutions to learn about and share ideas on housing design in the context of Thailand and the Philippines.

• Academia as entry point for the Urban Nexus approach.
• Within the Nexus approach, not only are the Nexus sectors physically connected but they have to be institutionally linked.
• The Nexus approach requires integration across levels of government, as well as across sectors.

• India, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Vietnam presented the status of their Voluntary National Review and Nationally Determined Contribution preparations through “Market Place”.
• National and local representatives used the Logical Framework to find solutions of institutional collaboration and sustainable financing.
• Participants learned how to apply the Nexus approach in their implementation and reporting of the 2030 Agenda.

• Sustainable Alternative Development needs to put people at the center and requires collaboration from all levels.
• Colombia and Thailand exchanged the approach of sustainable alternative development.
• Outcomes of exchanges were presented to policymakers and implementers during a cooperation dialogue between Germany, Thailand and Colombia.