Thai, Myanmar delegates join technical workshop on Transboundary Haze Pollution Management

The Royal Thai Embassy in Yangon, in collaboration with the Pollution Control Department (PCD), organized “the Technical workshop and study visit on Transboundary Haze Pollution Management between Thailand and Myanmar” in Thailand, in which 20 officials from Myanmar participated.
This technical workshop held from 18 to 27 January 2024 aims to solve the problem of Transboundary Haze Pollution Management following the tripartite leadership meeting among Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Thailand held on 7 April 2023, in which the collaborative approaches to address transboundary haze issues relating to the “CLEAR Sky Strategy” of the Royal Thai Government were discussed.
The key topics in the workshop curriculum were the source of PM 2.5 and its impact on the people, the methods of monitoring, inspecting, evaluating, and predicting air pollution by using satellite systems and air quality monitoring devices, the solution to burning problems by providing the communities with knowledge, the changing of the way of thinking, the recommendation on applying the sustainable farming and the utilization of technology as well as the setting of regulations and guidelines to prevent the problems caused by the incineration.
During the workshop, participants also discussed setting up the contact points of both countries and visited Space Krenovation Park in Si Racha District, Chonburi Province.
The certificate ceremony for the Myanmar participants of the said workshop was held on 26 January 2024, awarded by Ms Preeyaporn Suwannakes, Director-General of the Pollution Control Department, and witnessed by Mr Yordying Supasri, Minister Counsellor of the Royal Thai Embassy in Yangon. The participants also evaluated the workshop satisfactorily and expressed their opinions, which the Embassy will use as a reference in organizing further workshops in the next phase. — GNLM