Being the people who will suffer the worst impacts of climate change, women and youths from Thai communities on the frontline of the crisis are demanding that the government pay greater attention to the environment.
On the eve of the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), residents of at-risk communities have exposed what they claim are serious gaps in Thailand’s climate policy.
Many local communities are being almost completely overlooked by Thailand’s climate strategy, they say.
COP28 will be held in Dubai from November 30 to December 12.
Uncertain future in Chana
Born into a fishing family from a small coastal community of Songkhla’s Chana district in the South of Thailand, 21-year-old Khairiya Rahmanyah says local residents lack neither food nor income thanks to the fertile land and bountiful sea.
Farming and fishing have offered stable livelihoods here for decades.
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