Adapting to Climate Change: Facing the Consequence
9 – 25 May, 2023
Background and Rational
It has been confirmed that global greenhouse gases emission due to human activities has rapidly increased. The world warmed by about 0.7°C in the 20th century (IPCC, 2007). The latest Synthesis report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007 stated that the degree of the climate system warming is not equivalent globally. At this point, evidences are records from increasing in global average air and ocean temperature observations, widespread melting of snow ice, and rising global average sea level. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the scenario puts the world on course to warm by 3.5°C by 2100. For comparison, the difference in global mean temperature between the pre-industrial age and the ice ages was about 6°C.
Climate change impacts the whole globe in many sectors such as human health, agriculture, forest ecosystem, water resources, and coastal areas. Developing countries, in particular, may have more impacts due to having less potential both in economic ability to prevent or mitigate climate change and also in basic knowledge to overcome or to have a better understanding about climate change.
The concept of adaptation, adaptive capacity, vulnerability, resilience, exposures and sensitivity are interrelated and have a wide range of applications to global change science that also vary by the phenomena of interest and time scale.
Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Mahidol University, has foreseen that climate change will be an enormous critical issue for scientists, politicians and the human system. Thus, this training and workshop has been designed to be a wakeup call for humans to take responsibility of saving our world, sharing knowledge and data and setting up a platform of possibility of creating a climate change adaptation network.
Course Leader
Associate Professor Dr. Sura Pattanakiat
Dean of Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies
Course Director
Associate Professor Dr. Nathsuda Pumijumnong
Contact Person:
Office of Academic Services in Environment and Science (OASES)
Tel: 0-2441-5000 ext. 2225
Fax: 0-2441-9509-10
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Agenda
- Schedule: The training and workshop on Adapting to Climate Change: Facing the Consequence will be held for a period of 3 weeks. The first week will cover general causes of the adaptation context of human dimensions to climate change. The second week will cover adaptation tools and technique adapted to tackle the climate change in several sectors, including site visit and the third week will focus on the application of adaptive capacity, the application for food security and coastal zone, one-day trip visit, and country reports. The broad overview of the agenda is as follows:
- Week 1
- Introduction: workshop goals, objectives and expecting outcomes
- Overview of the adaptation context of human dimensions of global change
- Natural resource systems
- Adaptation strategy
- Week 2
- Adaptation tools, techniques and policy
- Adaptation to agricultural sector, water, drought, flooding
- Communication and raising awareness for adapting to climate change
- Adaptation to food security, coastal erosion and local context
- Week 3
- Adaptation to coastal zone
- Workshop
- Country report
- Week 1
- Workshop Practices
- Workshop 1: Lamtakong wind turbine hybrid alongside fuel cells
- Workshop 2: Climate Smart Agriculture
- Workshop 3: Climate Change Impact on coastal erosion and adaptation option: Bang Khun Tient
- Advance Assignments
Country Report:
- General information of participants (1 page of A4 size paper) including name of participant, educational background, country, affiliation, position, duties and responsibilities (briefly)
- General information of the Country (1-2 pages of A4 size paper) including geographical status of the country, climate, population, official language, social, educational and economic conditions, Gross National Products (GNP), per-capita income, major import and export goods, natural resources and environmental situations, etc.
- Content (up to 4-5 pages of A4 size paper). The details of participants’ country reports should cover the following topics:
- The current situation on climate change issues- Country policy related to climate change planning, vulnerability, impact and adaptation- The best practices related to climate change- Experiences/ lessons from the impact of climate change
- Summary and Recommendation (1 page of A4 size paper)
- References and further information (if any) (1 page of A4 size paper)
Schedule
Tuesday 9 May, 2023
Opening ceremony
- Audio visual presentation: Thailand International Cooperation Agency (TICA) and Mahidol University
- Welcoming speech by Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies
- Opening speech by Thailand International Cooperation Agency (TICA)
- Introduction: workshop goals, objectives and expected outcomes by Course Director
- Self-introductions by the participants
Assoc. prof. Dr. Nathsuda Pumijumnong
Mahidol University
Wednesday 10 May, 2023
Topic 2: Future Climate change: Context in Thailand
Dr. Winai Chaowiwat
Hydro – Informatics Institute (HII)Topic 3: Climate extreme: Adaptation and management to alleviate problems
Thursday 11 May, 2023
Topic 4: Climate change adaptation policy in Thailand
Dr. Uthai Chareonwong
Independent Consultant
Topic 5 : Climate vulnerability and adaptation
Ms Wanun Permpibul Climate Watch Thailand
Friday 12 May, 2023
Topic 6: Climate change impact to water system: The way forwards to adaptation
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kampanad Bhaktikul
Mahidol University
Topic 7: Global environmental change and food security
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Noppol Arunrat
Mahidol UniversitySaturday 13 May, 2023
Sunday 14 May, 2023
Monday 15 May, 2023
Topic 8: Technology innovation and climate change adaptation
Dr. Narin Buntanoon
Mahidol University
Topic 9: Thailand and greenhouse gases mitigation strategy
Dr.Puttipar Rotkittikhun
Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization
Tuesday 16 May, 2023
Topic 10: Climate change impacts on coastal ecosystems: The government's role in tackling the problem
Dr. Pornsri Sutthanarak, Department of Marine and Coastal Resources
Topic 11: Climate change impact to forest ecosystem: The way forwards to alleviation
Prof. Dr. Youngyut Trisurat
Kasetsart University
Wednesday 17 May, 2023
Thursday 18 May, 2023
Topic 12: Thai coast: Coastal vulnerability, resilience and adaptation in Thailand
Assoc.Prof.Dr.Kanchana Nakhapakorn
Mahidol University
Topic 13: Adapting to catastrophic changes caused by climate change
Asst. Prof. Dr. Allan Sriratana Tabucanon
Mahidol University
Friday 19 May, 2023
Topic 14: Climate change impact on health: The way forward to adaptation
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kraichat Tantrakarnapa
Mahidol University
Topic 15: Marine biodiversity and climate change
Dr. Sumaitt Putchakarn
Burapha University
Saturday 20 May, 2023
Sunday 21 May, 2023
Monday 22 May, 2023
Workshop 1: Lamtakong wind turbine hybrid alongside fuel cells / Discussion
All Lecturers
VDO clip 1
Topic 16: Communication and awareness raising for adapting to climate change
Asst. Prof. Dr. Sukanya Sereenonchai
Mahidol University
Tuesday 23 May, 2023
Workshop 2: Climate smart agriculture / Discussion
All Lecturers
VDO clip 2
Workshop 3: Climate change impact on coastal erosion and adaptation option: Bang Khun Tient / Discussion on coastal erosion
VDO Clip 3
Wednesday 24 May, 2023
Country report presentation 1
All Lecturers
Country report presentation 2
All Lecturers
Thursday 25 May, 2023
Overall conclusions and course discussion
All Lecturers
10:30 – 11:00
Closing Ceremony
- Closing speech by Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies
- Thank you Speech by the representative from all participants
- Thank you speech from Assoc. prof. Dr. Nathsuda Pumijumnong, Course Director