Bangkok--3 Dec--GIZ
The EU supported project, “Sustainable Consumption and Production – Policy Support Component - Thailand”, recently organized a workshop on the lessons learned from 3 years’ cooperation and suggest the way forward on sustainable consumption and production (SCP). Governmental agencies, municipalities and the private sector get together to give valuable inputs to this workshop. “Sustainable Consumption and Production – Policy Support Component - Thailand” has since October 2011 served as framework for dialogue among Thai governmental agencies to strengthen policies for sustainable consumption and production.
The Project is part of the EU funded SWITCH Asia programme, which assist 19 countries in Asia and South East Asia in order to promote SCP in both the public and the private sectors and to share experiences among the countries.
The Project has been implemented by Department of Industrial Works within the Ministry of Industry, the Pollution Control Department, the Department of Environmental Quality Promotion, the Office of Natural Resources and Environment Policy and Planning within the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment as well as by Office of National Economic and Social Development Board. Technical expertise has been provided by German International Cooperation (GIZ), the Thailand Environment Institute and the Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production in Wuppertal, Germany.
Dr. Somchai Harnhirun, Deputy Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Industry said “It has been a pleasure to co-host the Project. It has given us valuable support to promote the Green Industry Mark and thereby further strengthen greening the industry. The SCP project has also served as a platform for a dialogue between the consumption and production side, so that they can support each other in creating a Green Market. With this effort, it creates partnership in Green Public Procurement and Green Industry. Via the Project we have opportunity to share our experience to other Asian countries and to exchange experiences on how to support the industry in their efforts to make the production more resource efficient, to reduce pollution and to develop more green products clean technology practice in SWITCH Asia Networking Forum.”
Mr. Stefan Schleuning, Head of Operations, the Delegation of the European Union to Thailand, said “We are happy that the Project has managed to bring so many governmental agencies and other stakeholders from the public and private sector together to discuss SCP policies. We can see that the Thai government has committed itself to bring SCP policies further, which already has brought Thailand in front in the region. There seems also to be a strong move in the general public to make SCP as part of their daily life. All this together has paved Thailand’s way to a Low Carbon Green Economy, which all countries in the World need to work for, if we want to be sure that the coming generation can have a decent living standard and can enjoy a clean environment.”
For more information, please contact: Mr. Niels Juul Busch, Team Leader, SCP Policy Project, Thailand
Tel: +66 2 354 5105, Mobile: +66 8 8499 7387, E-mail:
[email protected].
or Ms. Siriporn Treepornpairat, Public Information Manager, GIZ
Tel: +66 2 661 9273, Mobile: +66 8 7022 7526 ext. 33 E-mail:
[email protected].
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Photo shows (from left)
Mr. Stefan Schmid, Senior Project Manager, GIZ Head Office in Germany
Mr. Sakol Tinagul, Deputy Director – General, Department of Environment Quality Promotion
Mr. Montree Boonpanich, Senior Advisor, Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board
Dr. Somchai Harnhirun, Deputy Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Industry
Mr. Stefan Schleuning, Head of Operations, the Delegation of the European Union to Thailand
Mr. Sukda Punkla, Deputy Director General of Department of Industrial Works
Mr. David Oberhuber, Country Director of GIZ Thailand
Mrs. Sutthiya Chantawarangul, Representative from the Delegation of the European Union to Thailand
Mr. Niels Juul Busch, Team Leader, Sustainable Consumption and Production - Policy Support Component - Thailand
at the workshop on the lessons learned from 3 years’ cooperation in the Thai-EU project on Sustainable Consumption and Production – Policy Support Component – Thailand. The project served as a framework for dialogue among Thai government agencies to strengthen policies for sustainable consumption and production.