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Urgent push for fair climate finance
Oped, Sarinee Achavanuntakul, Published on 01/04/2026
» Ever more visible, the various impacts from climate change are eroding both Thailand's economic competitiveness and the livelihoods of its people: season by season, in heat waves that flatten productivity, floods that swallow farmland, and coastal erosion that is slowly reclaiming communities.
How climate fund can give justice for all
News, Sarinee Achavanuntakul, Published on 28/11/2025
» In one of the most momentous climate policy moves, Thailand's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0) was formally submitted to the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on Nov 4.
The promise and peril of green bonds
News, Sarinee Achavanuntakul, Published on 16/10/2024
» Once occupying a tiny fraction of global financial markets, "green bonds" have grown exponentially in the past decade to become one of the world's fastest-growing asset classes.
Pushing banks towards green finance
News, Sarinee Achavanuntakul, Published on 02/10/2024
» In an earlier article in this space, I mentioned that "the Bank of Thailand should integrate [Thailand] taxonomy into its reporting and disclosure regulations for the financial sector, as the EU has done, because the public scrutiny of activities in the banking sector can and should be part of the learning process on the journey towards greener finance".
Next steps for Thailand Taxonomy
News, Sarinee Achavanuntakul, Published on 09/09/2024
» As demands for climate finance increase with the tangible impacts of climate change, people increasingly look to the government and various regulators to establish and upgrade a more effective combination of rules, regulations and market-based mechanisms to spur investments at a scale that is commensurate to our needs.