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Thailand needs to avoid the high-carbon growth path of many developed countries and, instead, take a low-carbon growth path. A green low-carbon growth path is in Thailand's own interest as it can simultaneously tackle local environmental degradation, global climate change, and energy security challenges. It can also position Thailand as a regional leader in green, sustainable growth. Green low-carbon growth in Thailand could focus on the following four pillars: 1) maintaining rapid economic growth while adjusting the country's economic structure toward a less energy, and carbon-intensive economy; 2) achieving greater urbanization while shifting toward green livable low-carbon cities; 3) meeting the huge thirst for energy while transforming the energy sector toward one of high energy efficiency and widespread diffusion of low-carbon technologies; and 4) improving quality of life while shifting toward a resource-efficient and sustainable lifestyle.
Air Pollution --- Air Quality --- Alternative Energy --- Carbon Dioxide --- Carbon Emissions --- Carbon Intensity --- Clean Energy --- Climate --- Climate Change --- Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases --- Coal --- Electric Cars --- Electricity --- Emission Reductions --- Emissions --- Energy --- Energy and Environment --- Energy Consumption --- Energy Efficiency --- Energy Policy --- Energy Production and Transportation --- Environment --- Environmental Economics & Policies --- Ethanol --- Fossil Fuels --- Fuel Taxes --- Global Environment Facility --- Global Warming --- Gross Domestic Product --- Landfill Gas --- Mobility --- Natural Gas --- Particulate Matter --- Population Density --- Power Generation --- Power Plants --- Public Transit --- Renewable Energy --- Roads --- Sanitation --- Sugarcane --- Transparency --- Transport --- Urban Sprawl --- Vehicles --- Waste Management --- Wastewater Treatment
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The 2009 World Development Report (WDR) on economic geography aroused interest among policymakers in Thailand and led to an agreement between the Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) and the East Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit of the World Bank to collaborate on a study of the Bangkok urban region which is Thailand's engine of growth. This report is the fruit of continuous collaboration between the NESDB and the World Bank. This report was prepared by a joint NESDB-World Bank team. For over three decades, Thailand has consistently ranked as one of the fastest growing Southeast Asian economies. This growth performance is principally the result of high levels of domestic and foreign investment that enabled Thailand to build a diversified, export oriented industrial economy and absorb technologies from more advanced countries. Much of this industrialization has been concentrated in Bangkok and five adjacent provinces that comprise the Bangkok metropolitan region and, in recent years, a few provinces further to the south east which are now a part of the Bangkok urban region. The principal economic challenge for Thailand is to enhance the industrial potential of the region so as to sustain real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth at between five and six percent per annum. This is well below the growth rates of eight and nine percent per annum achieved during 1985-1995. Bangkok must ensure that public amenities, services, housing and transport infrastructures receive sustained attention and financing. The quality of life will be vital to retaining a large talent pool, attracting investment and sustaining the tourist industry.
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