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Why investing in people matters
Oped, Auliya Febriyanti, Rhea Oktaqiara & Zulfikar Yurnaidi, Published on 04/07/2025
» Asean is striving to enhance its competitiveness on the global stage and readiness for a transition under its Carbon Neutrality Strategy. However, Asean will not be well-positioned to become an important part of the global net-zero economy without a robust human capital development to produce skilled, educated, and healthy individuals to drive the energy transition. Human capital has been a central ingredient in economic development, as evidenced by the bloc's Human Capital Index -- which ranges from 0.5 to 0.8 -- which demonstrates a positive correlation with Gross Domestic Products (GDP) per capita.
Making exports for a low-carbon era
Oped, Kannika Thampanishvong & Nipon Poapongsakorn, Published on 27/03/2024
» Exports have been Thailand's important growth engine for many decades. A number of Thailand's export destinations have shown increasing interest in and support for low-carbon products. Failure to meet global demand for low-carbon products risks Thailand's competitiveness in international trade.
Indonesia's next leader faces challenges
Oped, Collins Chong Yew Keat, Published on 29/02/2024
» Prabowo Subianto's electoral victory is expected, especially since he named Gibran Rakabuming, President Joko Widodo's eldest son, as his running mate. The "Jokowi effect" is firmly driving an upward momentum of support.
WHO: We need food, not tobacco
Oped, Renaud Meyer & Jos Vandelaer, Published on 31/05/2023
» As we mark World No Tobacco Day today, it is imperative that we reflect on this year's theme: "We need food, not tobacco." While smoking continues to pose a significant public health threat in Thailand, we must also recognise the adverse impact of tobacco cultivation on tobacco farmers, food security and the environment.
Thailand's development model splutters
Oped, Peerasit Kamnuansilpa, Published on 16/03/2023
» Location-based economic development (LED) strategies, defined as government efforts to improve a particular area's economic and social conditions, were implemented in economically advanced countries long before they were in Thailand.
Clean energy needs far clearer policy
Oped, Nichamon Thongphat and Jitlakha Sukruay, Published on 17/08/2022
» Amid rising oil prices and the need to slow down global warming from fossil fuels, the government's vow to give electric vehicles a big policy push is more than welcome. The road ahead will not be easy, however.
Reducing emissions not so easy
Oped, Bjorn Lomborg, Published on 10/11/2021
» At the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow (COP26), most leaders of rich nations are eagerly promising to decarbonise their economies by mid-century or even sooner. Yet, it is highly questionable if they and their successors will want or be able to keep their promise. Even worse, growth-reducing climate policies won't convince developing countries who need to lift their populations out of poverty and whose emissions matter most this century.
FAO ready to act on food systems
Oped, Qu Dongyu, Published on 16/09/2021
» The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has entered a new era with a new structure and new dynamics.
Do we need more rockets in the stratosphere?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/08/2021
» If you're worried about your "carbon footprint" -- a concept foisted on the world in 2004 by British Petroleum to persuade people that their own behaviour, and not giant oil companies like BP, is causing the climate problem -- then you definitely should not sign up for a sub-orbital space flight. Besides, you probably can't afford it (US$250,000 -- about 8 million baht -- per person).
Fuel U-turn unfortunate
Oped, Editorial, Published on 19/02/2021
» The Energy Ministry's decision to delay the plan to replace gasohol 91 with E20 -- a mix of 20% ethanol and 80% unleaded gasoline 95 -- is bad news for the country's efforts to combat worsening air pollution, especially PM2.5 fine dust particles.