Page 7 - 2020 Sustainability report DOW Thailand Group

Collaborations to protect the climate

Partnerships to

reduce carbon emission

Carbon
Reduction
In addition to our environmentally friendly operations, Dow works with
customers, partners, and like-minded stakeholders to promote sustainability.
This includes initiating projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
the main cause of global warming and climate change.

Progression in 2020,
the first year of our
5-year journey

• Established a committee
and working group for
the project
• Collectively planted
16,300 mangrove trees,
Conserve mangrove and reduce global warming with which absorb more than
163,000 kilograms of
the Dow & Thailand Mangrove Alliance
carbon per year
Mangrove forests store up to five times more carbon than most • Retrieved 355 kilograms
other tropical forests around the world, helping reduce global warming. of waste from mangrove
forest
They also trap marine litter. Therefore, Dow is augmenting a mangrove
• Started renovating the
planting project in the Pak Nam Prasae area, which the company has
Pak Nam Prasae natural
been doing for more than 12 years since the site was shrimp farms. To classroom; installed signs,
complete the project, we are not only planting a forest but also creating and renovated the pavilion
a sustainable conservation mechanism with balanced environmental, • Organized a mangrove
forest photography
economic, and social benefits. Community garbage management is also
contest to promote
in the project scope. In collaboration with the Department of Marine and tourism
Coastal Resources, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, • Organized bloggers and
and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), we aim media trip to the forest
and Pak Nam Prasae
to cover an area of 8,000,000 square meters (5,000 rai) in five years,
local community
starting with the Pak Nam Prasae mangrove forest as a pilot area before
extending to mangrove forests in other provinces.
The main operations consist of creating a natural classroom
learning center, driving Thailand's first carbon credit mechanism for
mangroves, promoting local waste management among communities
and tourists, supporting community enterprises and income generation
from ecotourism as a blue carbon destination.

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