Urgent push for fair climate financeA view of the Mae Moh coal-fired power plant in Lampang province on Oct 10, 2024. The inaugural Climate Finance Tracker launched by Climate Finance Network Thailand (CFNT) in July 2025 found that between 2020 and 2024, Thailand invested roughly 148 billion baht in climate adaptation nationwide, just about 30 billion baht per year. Bridging this financing gap is an urgent imperative: both to reduce the harshest impacts of climate change and sustain Thailand's competitiveness in the era of global warming. Against this backdrop, CFNT and Fair Finance Thailand (FFT) have released a joint whitepaper ahead of Thailand's February 2026 general election, proposing 10 concrete climate finance policies the new government must adopt. It calls for the Climate Change Act -- approved in principle by Cabinet in December 2025 -- to define strict criteria for spending from the planned Climate Fund.

Source: Bangkok Post March 31, 2026 23:28 UTC