The 2nd Zero Carbon City International Forum
9-10th March 2022

Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s
Initiative Zero Carbon
10th March 2022

Act.Sub Lt. Wiruch Tanchanapra
Director of Air Quality and Noise Management Divi
Department of Environment, BMABAU and GHG emission targets
Bangkok Master Plan on Climate Change 2013-2023

ton-CO2e2013 BAU
43.87 Mt-CO2e2016 Actual
42.75Mt-CO2e2020 Target
46.44Mt-CO2e2016 BAU
46.83 Mt-CO2e2020 BAU
53.74 Mt-CO2e

Emissions reduction
BAU emissions-13.57%

real data

Identifying actual emissions

20092010

20112012

2013

2014

20162020202220232030

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Direction of The Thailand Government
At COP26, the Thai government announced
on 1 November 2021.
 Thailand NDC will be 40% by 2030
 Carbon neutrality by 2050
2035
 Net Zero GHG Emission by 2065.
69% share of2050

electricity generation of new
power generation capacity

electric vehicles of newvehicles in the market

Prayut Chan-o-cha
Thai Prime Minister

2065

Net-ZERO GHG Emission

while looking forward to enhanced International
cooperation and support on finance, technology,
and capacity-building to achieves this ambition

50% share of renewable

The BKK New Master Plan on Climate Change
2030: “Bangkok moves toward a green, livableand climate-resilient city, under the citywide
collaboration for sustainable development.”

GHG Emissions （t CO2e)

GHG emissions with climate actions-19%“Net-zeroemission”“Carbon
Neutrality”
Vision of Bangkok

GHG EmissionReduction

2018(Base Year)

2030

2050

Year4

Mitigation Measures
Main GHG Reduction
 4 sectors: Transport, Energy,Waste&Wastewater, and Green Urban
Planning
 28% from Transport sector and 16%
from Energy sector
 6 main Transport measures: Public
transportation (Infrastructure andsupporting measure), Motor vehicles,Non-motorized transportation, Traffic
Volume Flow Control and Publicawareness raising) 2 main Energy measures: Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Solar power boat cruisingalong Klong Phadung Krung Kasem

Adaptation Measures
Impact and Adaptation Measure The impact of climate change is also
serious in Bangkok.
 Inundation occurs more frequently in thecity due to heavy rain in a shorter time thanever before.
 It is necessary to deal with phenomena
such as floods caused by heavy rains during
the monsoon season that occurred in 2011.

Main Project Activities for Water Resource Management
 Construction of flood prevention
structure along.
 Construction of drainage system in themain road and tunnels.
 Canals Improvement and development
project.
 Development of proactive watermanagement system.
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Cooperation with various stakeholders Bangkok is working with various stakeholders to promote climate change policy.
 For example, conducting a large-scale earth hour in cooperation with WWF.
 Private sectors and BMA have signed MOU on environmental activities.
 Based on this MOU, BMA is expanding the content of participating companies
and their efforts.
Environment Day
The support from many
companies was obtained
and high environmental
awareness wasconfirmed.

JICA

Yokohama

BMA
RoyalAuthorities

C40

Earth hour

Various privatecompanies

In cooperation with BMA and WWF,
many private sectors participated in
the 'lights dawn' event.

Intercity cooperation

BMA and Yokohama are cooperating to discuss various activities toward
the realization of the New Master Plan developed with the support of JICA.

7Thank you