Governor Apirak Kosayodhin said on Thursday that the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) next Wednesday would sign the Bangkok Declaration on Mitigation of Climate Change with 23 public and private organisations at the UN building.
The aim is to reduce the contribution of the metropolis to climate change problems…
…After the declaration was signed, a campaign to alert citydwellers to the rising temperatures around the world would be launched. Apirak also called on households to turn off all electric appliances next Wednesday, starting at 7pm…
…The Bangkok Declaration outlines five ways to mitigate global warming – reduce energy and natural resources consumption, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote lifestyles that uphold the sufficiency economy, promote activities that help absorb greenhouse gases and build public awareness of global warming.
- Extracted from: Jeerawan Prasomsap, Pennapa Hongthong, “Bangkok initiates campaign to reduce impact of climate change“, The Nation, 3 May 2007.
I have not found a full text of this particular Bangkok Declaration but if any New Mandala readers find a source please do let us all know.
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1 anon // May 4, 2007 at 1:24 pm
This is such a joke! Energy/natural resources consumption and greenhouse gas emissions are all things that can be quantitatively and objectively measured. Compliance can be evaluated, and the effectiveness of the declaration can be assessed. The effect on climatic change can, in theory, be modelled.
How the hell is anybody going to objectively measure whether a signatory party has actually “promoted lifestyles that uphold the sufficiency economy?” Did the Thaksin government do it? Is the Surayud junta doing it? Is Apirak doing it? There’s no way to really tell. The fact that Apirak is signing off on this shows how little he understands environmental issues.
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