สมาคมพลังงานหมุนเวียนไทย (อาร์อี 100) Thai Renewable energy (RE100) association
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THAI RENEWABLE ENERGY (RE100) ASSOCIATION
Global warming is the main catalyst in driving climate change, causing natural disasters such as storms, floods and droughts with devastating unforeseen consequences. As the world becomes more and more aware of the danger climate change represents, global standards and practices are formed limiting the irresponsible use of natural resources.
This situation is the product of many countries joining together to mitigate global warming issues starting from the 2nd United Nations Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992. Member states meet together to discuss the topic of environment and development as a global master plan for actions that will lead to sustainable development in the society, economy and environment.
Subsequently, the Millennium Development Goals (MGD) was established and despite the aims having been fulfilled, the United Nations believed that there are still important goals that must be pursued, namely the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for the next 15 years as a direction pertaining to continuous development for the world community.
The recognition of these goals had led to the idea of sustainable business operations in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) terms which had drawn the interest of listed companies on stock exchanges, fund managers and investors around the world with emphasis on institutional and foreign investors. Importance is given to investing in companies that have good business practices and which takes into account the sustainability and benefits to the society they provide, reflecting the decision-making process that depicts the main vision of the responsible investor, seeking returns not only in profits alone. As a result, the world’s leading stock exchange has implemented a measurement mechanism known as the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), which is a stock index consisting global leading companies that has passed the Sustainability Assessment test according to economic, social and environmental indicators which institutional investors around the world accept and use as information in their investments. The index is divided into 24main industries, comprising 60 sub-industries with institutional investors and funds membership companies being reviewed and chosen each year every September. For this reason, numerous changes and adjustments of companies listed on the stock exchanges around the world have occurred, affecting business systems throughout their entire supply chain.
At the same time, the European Union (EU) has issued an important measure called the European Green Deal, the EU’s new industrial development strategy with an operating mechanism called the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism(CBAM) with the principle of reducing the cost competitiveness of carbon products from developing countries sending goods into the EU. Accordingly, this is in the form of taxation where if their carbon emissions were to exceed those of other products in the same category, the importer or exporter must purchase the relevant amount of carbon credit licenses to make up for the greenhouse gases released, with the mechanism expected to be utilized in the year 2023.
In addition to this , the United States has announced a new stance on climate change under the governance of President Joe Biden, who has returned to giving serious emphasis to global warming and bringing new changes never seen before in the past 100 years. Recent Worldwide policies also demonstrate movement towards a world without international carbon usage, such as :
- EU agrees on European Climate Law, makes 2050 net zero emissions target,
- Taiwan plan for zero emissions by 2050,
- South Korea Carbon Neutral by 2050,
- Japan Carbon Neutral by 2050,
- Japan & EU standing together to become coal free by 2030 in addition to their 2050 GHG goals.
- Japan will need to reach zero emission power by 2035,
- China Net Carbon by 2060,
- Automakers In Japan announcing Carbon Neutral goals according to the Toyota group as plant zero CO2 in 2050 and so on.
Green energy or renewable energy is therefore the first choice of energy to inevitably come into the role of replacing fossil fuels and there is no better time for Thailand to form an organisation that will act as the central point, integrating both supply and demand to drive the industrial sector , transportation sector ,financial sector, retailers, wholesalers and other related sectors of the country affected to archive stability in the forthcoming transitory environment. Thus, we would like to ask stakeholders from all sectors to join and establish the RE100 Thailand Club at this time.