Establish Low Carbon Consumption and Production in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines ('SCP TIP') [AFFILIATED]
Ddevelop recommendations and guidelines on sustainable consumption and production and pursue their integration into policies.
Thailand: The Deputy Minister expressed support for the project and policies geared to the promotion of sustainable agriculture. The team seek to accelerate the policy implementation process of the "Draft: Thailand's sustainable agriculture system promotion ACT", which includes principles of SCP, and now also includes aspects of consumer participation. The regulation aims to contribute to the country's target to increase the sustainable agriculture landscape to 800,000 hectares by 2040. The Office of Agricultural Economics (OAE) co-organized and participated in the project's SCP policy research and capacity building workshops for smallholders at project sites in Chiangmai and Nan. In an official meeting with the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment and the Director of the Royal Forest Department , the project's model site in Chiangmai in implementing SCP as an alternative and policy instrument to deforestation was discussed. Indonesia: The National Development Agency (BAPPENAS) issued a presidential regulation on low-carbon development, which in essence is mainstreaming emission reductions into development planning. Just recently the Indonesian president announced Presidential Instruction No. 8/2018 on Monitoring and Evaluation of Oil Palm Concessions and Productivity Improvement, a landmark policy to halt the unmanaged expansion of palm oil plantation development and improving governance. In order to be able to give better advice on development and implementation of the Indonesian NDC, the project team will receive training on developing NDCs for the agro-food sector by experts from CGIAR/ IRRI in November 2018 Philippines: The Philippine Center for Environment Protection and Sustainable Development Inc. (main administrator of the National Eco-Labelling Programme-Green Choice Philippines) signed an MoU with WWF-Philippines and together worked on political interventions (project presentations, policy review, policy dialogues, roundtable discussions, action-planning workshop, crafting a policy brief and policy recommendations). The Climate Change Commission is headed by a new commissioner, Atty. Rachel Herrera. With its approach of advancing sustainable waste management, including food donation programmes for food-safe surplus and composting of biodegradable waste, the project is contributing to the National Climate Change Action Plan (which prioritizes food security and environmental stability), and it contributes to participating cities' carbon footprint reduction, which can be factored into their Local Climate Change Action Plans. The project was part of the Congressional Technical Working Group seeking to consolidate House Bills that concern food waste and food donation programmes. The consolidated bills have been approved at committee-level and will soon be deliberated upon by both the lower and upper Chambers of Congress for final approval.
