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Thailand's "Energy Efficiency Plan 2015" (EEP2015) and "Alternative Energy Development Plan 2015-2036" (AEDP2015) lay out the nation's plans to conserve energy and move to renewable energy. [4] Both plans have the same period, ending in 2036. [5] AEDP's goal is for renewable energy to contribute 30% of Thailand's total energy production by 2036 ...
Thailand's Pollution Control Department (PCD) and other agencies have developed standards in order to reduce air pollution. The standards focus on shifting to lower-emissions vehicle engines and improving public transportation. In 1999, 80% of the motorcycles on the road in Bangkok had environmentally unfriendly two-stroke engines. [32]
In 2015 Thailand produced 9.5 million m 3 of waste water. [ 32 ] : 47 This was the equivalent of 150 litres per day per person. [ 32 ] : 50 Only 34 percent of the waste water was treated at one of Thailand's 93 treatment facilities before being returned to the environment.
Thailand could lower the use of plastic bags by as many as one million bags a day if everyone used one fewer plastic bag a day. [7] The program was partially superseded by Thailand's ban on single-use plastic bags at major retail outlets as of 1 January 2020. [8]
Water quality laws are legal standards or requirements governing water quality, that is, the concentrations of water pollutants in some regulated volume of water. Such standards are generally expressed as levels of a specific water pollutants (whether chemical, physical, biological, or radiological) that are deemed acceptable in the water ...
A graph depicting Thailand’s increased gas consumption rates and dependence on gas imports over the past 50 years. In 2015, Thailand’s Integrated Energy Blueprint enacted the Alternative Energy Development Plan (AEDP) to increase energy produced by solar, wind, hydro, and bioenergy to 30 percent of the total energy by 2036. [2]
Toxic smog from burning farms shroud large swathes of Thailand at the beginning of every year. Thailand: 10 million sought treatment for pollution-related illnesses in 2023 Skip to main content
In 2015, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha initiated a two-year effort to clean up the canal in 2017–2018. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] A survey by the Pollution Control Department (PCD) inspected 631 buildings and residences beside the canal, [ 12 ] concluding that there were 412 sources of pollution, including 62 hospitals, 107 restaurants, 14 markets, 66 ...