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UNDP Resident Representative to Thailand 🇺🇳🇹🇭 @undpthailand supports Thailand to achieve an inclusive and sustainable society. 🤝🌎

Bangkok, Thailand
Joined June 2009
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The United Nations Development Programmme (UNDP) and all the UN family in Thailand expresses our profound sadness at the passing of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, The Queen Mother of Thailand. We extend our deepest condolences the Royal Family and the people of Thailand during this time of national grief.
The United Nations in Thailand expresses its profound sadness at the passing of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, The Queen Mother of Thailand. We extend our deepest condolences the Royal Family and the people of Thailand during this time of national grief.
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Thailand’s Pattani Bay shows how a community climate charter can turn local priorities into US$2.5 million in potential investment for coastal resilience and livelihoods. 🌎 @UNDP @UNDPasiapac @UNDPplanet
#COP31 🇹🇭Pattani Bay turns climate risks into investment opportunities. Its first Community Climate Charter sets out 12 shared priorities to protect ecosystems, sustain livelihoods and build resilience. Through UK-supported @UNDP’s @CFN, with potential investment of US$2.5M.
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🌍 #COP31 is a critical moment to take stronger climate action. For Thailand, the priorities are clear: unlocking climate finance with new approaches, building community resilience & ensuring a just transition. Proud to advance these priorities with our partners. @UNDPplanet
🌍 #COP31: Why It Matters for Thailand & the World ◾ 1.5°C limit at risk ◾ US$7.8T needed yearly for climate action ◾ Thailand targets 47% emissions cuts by 2035 ◾ Bangkok needs THB 150M to tackle urban heat @UNDP advances climate finance, adaptation & a just transition.
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As #COP31 kicks off, @UNDP 🇹🇭 is turning climate ambition into action. 🔹 Unlock climate finance with insurance & city budgeting 🔹 Strengthen community-led adaptation for fishing & farming communities 🌱 With women at the centre of shaping solutions. go.undp.org/xCp
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Reshaping development finance with philanthropy & private sector. 🌏 Delighted to connect @UNDP Administrator @alexanderdecroo with our key partner @Krungthai_Care Bank’s CEO, Khun Payong. Together, through @BiofinThailand & @GEF_SGP, we invest in people and planet. 🌱
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Multilateralism matters more than ever. 🌏 A timely dialogue on cooperation for more inclusive, sustainable growth between @UNDP Administrator @alexanderdecroo and Thailand’s Deputy PM @SihasakPh at @MFAThai’s Rethinking Growth dialogue. #IMFmeetings #WBMeetings
Human development must value nature. 🌏 At @MFAThai’s Rethinking Growth dialogue with Deputy PM @SihasakPh during #IMFMeetings #WBMeetings, @UNDP Administrator @alexanderdecroo alongsiede @UNThailand’s @Friberg_Storey highlighted this priority ahead of UNDP’s year-end launch.
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Delighted to welcome @UNDP Administrator @alexanderdecroo to Thailand for 2026 World Bank–IMF Annual Meetings! 🇹🇭🌏 A pivotal week to strengthen partnerships, unlock development finance and turn global ambition into tangible impact for people and planet.
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As Thailand faces floods, insurance must build resilience and decent jobs. Joined @alexanderdecroo, @WorldBankGroup’s Ajay Banga, @GENERALI’s Chairman & @mofthailand Vice Minister as @UNDP launched 2 initiatives to help close the 800M decent jobs gap.
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As Thailand faces floods, insurance must build resilience and decent jobs. Joined @alexanderdecroo, @WorldBankGroup’s Ajay Banga, @GENERALI’s Chairman & @mofthailand Vice Minister as @UNDP launched 2 initiatives to help close the 800M decent jobs gap.
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Delighted to welcome @UNDP Administrator @alexanderdecroo to Thailand for 2026 World Bank–IMF Annual Meetings! 🇹🇭🌏 A pivotal week to strengthen partnerships, unlock development finance and turn global ambition into tangible impact for people and planet.
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“We are not a coalition of the willing; we are a coalition of the working.” a powerful message from Rachel Kyte @rkyte365, @CCACoalition’s UK Co-Chair. Pleased to join CCAC today. A reminder that tackling superpollutants takes trusted partnerships & collective action. 🌏
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A pleasure to meet Governor @chadchart_trip, thank you for championing #SDGs as @undpthailand SDG STAR 11 🌟 Sustainable Cities! Looking forward to building on our strong partnership during your 2nd term — advancing climate & nature finance, care services and SDG Localisation.
Towards a Greener, More Sustainable Bangkok 🌳 . UNDP and @‌pr_bangkok strengthen partnership in Governor Chadchart’s second term—mobilising climate and biodiversity finance, advancing gender-inclusive policies and tracking local SDG progress to turn ambition into action. 🏙️
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Partnerships in action for a cooler, greener Bangkok! 🌱 Delighted to join Deputy Governor Pornphrom, @EUinThailand Ambassadpr 🇪🇺, @ukinthailand 🇬🇧 Ambassadors at Bangkok Climate Action Week, advancing urban heat financing and launching Bangkok’s first SDG exhibition. @UNDPEU
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@UNDP, @bangkokbma shape a cooler, greener Bangkok at @BKKCAW 🌱, launching an urban heat strategy by @CFN_UNDP identifying THB 150M in needs, Bangkok’s first SDG exhibition and artwork made from 300 kg of discarded materials, supported by @EUinThailand.
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Democracy is more than institutions. It is about agency, having the voice & space to shape decisions that affect our lives. On #DemocracyDay, we celebrate the agents of change we work with—from youth, media & women to communities —for a more inclusive and accountable future.
Democracy grows stronger when all can participate, be heard and help shape their future. On #DemocracyDay, we celebrate agents of change—youth, women, media, local leaders—whom @UNDP🇹🇭 and partners like @UNDPEU work with to strengthen civic space, accountability & transparency.
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A warm welcome to our @UNDPThailand Student Ambassadors Batch 2! 🇹🇭🌏 36 young people, bringing different disciplines, perspectives & ideas—and one shared ambition to make a difference. Excited to see where their curiosity, courage & initiative will take them! @UNThailand
Welcoming UNDP 🇹🇭 Student Ambassador Batch 2! . Over 30 young people from diverse backgrounds joined an orientation to explore the SDGs, key development priorities in Thailand, and choose a @UNDP 🇹🇭 Portfolio to work on over the next year as “Agents of Change.”
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What do you want to be when you grow up? What about a tree doctor? 🌳🔎 With @UNDPEU support, our SDG Localisation work with Big Trees Foundation & Deputy Governor Sanon @BangkokBMA brings SDGs Academy into schools, integrating knowledge on nature, green spaces into classrooms.
👧🏻🌳@UNDPEU-SDG Localisation, @BMAThailand & Big Trees Foundation launch Green SDGs Academy, integrating urban nature into school curricula across 3 pilot schools in Bangkok and nurturing a new generation of “Junior Tree Doctors” to create lasting impact for a greener city.#SDG11
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Thailand is taking another step forward in sustainable finance 🇹🇭🌱 Building on Asia’s first sovereign Sustainability-Linked Bond—, Thailand is preparing its second SLB for launch in September, expanding to bring climate action & nature conservation together through finance.
Thailand prepares to issue its second Sustainability-Linked Bond 💵 @UNDP and @PDMO_TEAM are advancing sustainable investment through Thailand’s second SLB this September—linking finance to lower greenhouse gas emissions and expanded biodiversity conservation.
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Moving Towards a Nature-Positive🌿🇹🇭 Strengthening our commitment with Dr. Raweewan,@MNREThailand Permanent Secretary, on a 5-year direction to advance Thailand’s climate resilience & nature-positive development through national policies, investment, partnerships. @UNThailand
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@UNDP x @pr_mnre strengthened partnership for a climate-resilient, nature positive future through a 2027-2031 Country Programme Document, covering policy, investment strategy and community empowerment. 🇹🇭🤝
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Nature can thrive without us. But we cannot survive without nature. #IconsOfHope T-shirt Collection with @YUEDPAO @ONEP, turning everyday choices into action for biodiversity. Help protect Thailand's iconic species by supporting community-led conservation through the @GEFSGP.
Icons of Hope T-shirt Collection is a partnership between @UNDP & Thai apparel brand YUEDPAO that turns everyday fashion into action for nature. Inspired by iconic species, 100% of profits support biodiversity conservation at @GEF_SGP. @UNBiodiversity go.undp.org/pqa
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In Pattani Bay, communities launched the first Community Climate Charter in Thailand's southern border provinces, turning local priorities into climate action a while surfacing USD 2.5 million in climate adaptation investment opportunities across the province. @ukinthailand
How do we get #ClimateFinance to the frontlines? By letting communities lead. 🇹🇭 Pattani Bay launched the 1st Community Climate Charter in Southern Thailand, a model to connect public & private finance with local adaptation priorities. Learn more: go.undp.org/TH_community_cha…
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In Thailand, @UNDP works to promote civic space and support agents of change - media, youth, business leaders, who turn dialogue into action. Great discussion with Andreas, Head of Foreign Policy at EU @UNDPEU in Asia-Pacific, on the next chapter of Agents of Change Initiative.
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