Press Conference
COP 28 of people forum: Recovery of Global boiling with People power
11 November 2023
The Global Boiling (a.k.a. the climate change) has been the issue for the world’s survival; however, the majority of stages which brainstorm for the solutions, even from world-class stage, i.e. the Conference of the Parties (COP) by the United Nations, through the Thai Climate Action Conference (TCAC) organized by both governmental sections and private sections or the public seminar of “Readjusting Thailand into a Low Carbon Society” held by the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), is usually accompanied with the governmental organizations, experts, and private sectors who have an aim to resolve the economic growth via low-carbon management rather than withhold the ecology of the people and transition the society to sustainably and fairly nourish the ecology.
As per the aforesaid causes, the policies, the state plans, offers from the governmental stages and various technocrats, accordingly, fail to reach the in-depth understandings upon the way of life of the people and the communities as well as the Global Boiling issue substantially, distinctly, and prevalently encountered by the people, to behold the issues regarding the disparity and unfairness of the ecology, economy, and the society which aggravates the severity of the Global Boiling Issue, as well as to behold the roles of the communities and the people of adapting the management of ecology, economy, and the society in order to immunize such issue.
It’s due to the fact that governmental sectors, the private sectors, as well as mainstream academics lack the criticism against the conceptual ideas and policies causing the issues such as the acceleration of adjustment into renewable energies and has been obscure to the guidelines of immediately reducing and ceasing the fossil-fuel energies; moreover, the subjects regarding reformation of energy structures in conformity with good governance, greenwashing from the carbon offsets, carbon markets, carbon credits, infringement upon the community’s rights from the policy regarding carbon-credit afforestation, large projects of economic development, e.g. the Eastern Special Economic Zone, the Economic Corridors of every region, the land bridge project, building dams, waste power plants, and even nuclear power plants have not been seen vital to the transition from large mono-chemical agriculture into agroecology by the people.
All issues stated above stem from the fact that the governmental and private sections establish no questions upon the fundamentals of the issues regarding the unfair and unsustainable development, i.e. the systems of liberal capitalism and monopolistic bureaucracy; thus, they are emphasized to address the solutions from the technology and market mechanisms, to utilize the capitalism, which is the problematic cause, by turning into the green capitalism for further direct growth rather than restructure the economic and societal authorities throughout substantial and significant policies regarding, for example, energy, resources management, agricultural system, which influentially affect the Global Boiling, transitioned into sustainable and fair management by people, as well as to construct democracy in terms of the climate change from the root to make it happen.
Since there have been no approaches of policies and societies for the people to participate in policy-related deliberations for both national and global levels, civil societies who cooperate with the grassroots people in terms of environment and sustainable development of 23 organizations nationwide hereby consolidate for organizing the stage of “COP 28 of people forum: Recovery of Global boiling with People power”
You will be witnessing and hearing the voices of the various groups of people who have been constantly overlooked, whether it be the marginalized, the ethnic groups, or the new-generation farmers, upon the issues, the impacts, and the roles of the people, as well as the policy offers stemming from the issues and the actual ways of life of the people, including, not only the paradigms of ‘Carbonism’ as well as the carbon economics which are the mainstream approach to understand and resolve the global warming, but also the paradigms constructed from the endemic contexts in an ecological-cultural way as well as the combats and bargains by the people in diverse and inseparable manners.
Throughout the seminar, there are globally disputed subjects which do not feature in the stages of governmental sectors, private sectors, and academics including the following: stopping the greenwashing with carbon credits from afforestation, ‘clean energy’ farm carbons, stopping the fossil-fuel energy changing into renewable energies which are citizen-centric, decentralizing the management of resources, energies, and others to the people; protecting and promoting the rights of indigenous people, women, local communities in managing the resources, biodiversity, performing agroecology, energy management, and others; as well as protective policies to withhold the people from encountering the conditions of loss and damage, policies regarding protection and promotion of the farmers’ adaptation from their offers in each ecology, and roles as well as offers of the new-generation people transcending the conceptual ideas, governmental scopes and capitals.
That is because we do not need only low-carbon community aimed for the net-zero number which keeps being involved in the economic growth of the large industrial capitals that destroy the ecology and society, but we also need the transitions of systematically comprehensive development to surpass the capitalism that we know into the economic societies which are attributed in, nourished with, and balanced with the nature as well as the fair and green politics, resulting in the democratic climate change from the root.
The resolutions from this stage will be proposed to the public, the government and submitted into the United Nations’s COP 28 Conference held in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates in the late November and in the early December. Don’t let the Global Boiling matters be monopolized by the government and the technocrats; don’t let the Global Boiling matters be just the new righteousness in a green language of the polluter in destroying the ecology without seriously defending the nature and protecting the communities’ and people’s health conditions. The people shall jointly motivate in restructuring the Thai development in order to be held responsible for the world, and the people shall be inoculated to the world with sustainability and fairness.
The stage of the “COP 28 of people forum: Recovery of Global boiling with People power” will be a turning point of the country’s and the world’s significant policies. Let’s motivate together.