The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment's effort to fight climate change by using carbon sequestration in forest ecosystems as natural carbon sinks is getting a lot of flak.
The policy was announced at the Thailand Climate Action Conference last month. The ministry pointed to promising outcomes of the campaign to promote carbon credit trading in the forestry sector, as many big corporations have shown an interest in growing more forestland to gain carbon credits. However, activists warn that this climate strategy could backfire on efforts to mitigate climate change.
