Critics doubt Thai PM’s climate pledge
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on 1 December declared in front of the world community that Thailand would slash greenhouse gases by 20-25 per cent within 15 years, but critics panned the plan, saying it was just for show, as it looked unrealistic.
Prayut told the two-week-long United Nations climate-change summit in Paris that the Thai government was committed to the target of lowering greenhouse gas emissions by 20-25 per cent by 2030, set as part of its national plan developed under a shared commitment among members of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to keep the world’s temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
