MNRE Conducted a Conference for the GEO - 7 Preparation and Believed That It Will Be an Important Guideline for Making Urgently Environmental Crisis Policies

On this day (13th March 2023) at 10.00 a.m., Mr. Thalerngsak Petchsuwan, the Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (DPSMNRE) was assigned by the Minister for Natural Resources and Environment and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to be the representative attending and opening the First GEO - 7 Author's Writer Sprint at the United Nations Conference Center in Bangkok by believing that this conference with the experts in various fields for preparing the 7th Global Environment Outlook or GEO – 7 would evaluate the conditions and trends of global environments, the effects on humans’ well-beings, the achievement of sustainable development goals and the supports for innovations in order to provide the guidelines for the members to consider and make national and regional policies that would meet the policies for environmental challenge management.

This preparation of the GEO – 7 complied with “the resolution on the future of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO)” of the 5th United Nations Environment Assembly – Part 2 (UNEA 5.2). Thailand prepared environmental situation reports every year according to the procedures of the GEO reports under the Drivers – Pressures – State – Impacts - Responses (DPSIR) framework. Thailand has the risks of climate changes and the challenges about pollutants similarly to most countries in Asia-Pacific Region. The country is dedicated to fight against pollutions by setting the goal to reuse 100% of plastic wastes by 2027 and presenting “the special plans for solving particle pollutions in 2023” for promoting all relevant sectors and people to participate in stopping burns in open areas and preventing wild fires in order to solve the problems about smoke and particles, especially PM 2.5, and other problems.