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Green Infrastructure Investment Opportunities
THAILAND
2021 REPORT
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Acknowledgements
The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) would like to thank the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the ASEAN Catalytic Green Finance Facility (ACGF), and Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Public Debt Management Office (PDMO) under the Ministry of Finance (MoF) for continued support and collaboration in developing the Green Infrastructure Investment Opportunity (GIIO) Report Thailand 2021.
CBI also acknowledges the contributions made by members of ADB’s Southeast Asia Department (SERD), including from teams in the Innovation Hub of the Office of the Director General (SEOD), the ASEAN Catalytic Green Finance Facility (ACGF), the Energy Division (SEEN), and the Thailand Resident Mission (TRM) teams, with special inputs from ADB’s Private Sector Operations Department (PSOD) in TRM. Special thanks to Anouj Mehta, Unit Head of the SERD Innovation Hub and ACGF, and currently Country Director, Thailand Resident Mission; Pradeep Tharakan, Unit Head, Sovereign Energy Operations, Greater Mekong subregion and Principal Climate Change Specialist, SEEN; Krittayamon Paocharoen, Senior Investment Officer SEOD; Chitchanok Annonjarn, Country Economist, TRM; João Aleluia, SEEN Consultant; and Marina Lopez Andrich, ACGF Consultant. We also thank the SEC and the PDMO representatives, including Paneeya Nitiwanakun, Nuntharat Chaichanwattanakul, Thitiphan Pairojteerarach, Pothirat Kitsriopak,Pimpattra Thanapatruckdamrong, and Ruenvadee Suwanmongkol, Secretary-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Thailand for collaboration and guidance in the report development process. CBI also acknowledges the contributions made by members of the SEC, including Sirivipa Supantanet, Deputy Secretary-General, Jomkwan Kongsakul, Assistant Secretary-General, Paneeya Nitiwanakun, Assistant Director, Nuntharat Chaichanwattanakul, Senior Officer, Songyod Bunjoungmanee, Director, Nichaya Kosolwongse, Assistant Director, Winita Kultangwatana, Director, and Sasanee Lovisuth, Assistant Director.
In developing this report, CBI consulted with key stakeholders in the industry and the financial sectors. We are grateful to the representatives of Bank of Ayudhya Public Company Limited (Krungsri), BTS Group Holdings Public Company Limited, Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand, and Gulf Energy Development Public Company Limited for sharing significant insights into green finance and investment opportunities in renewable energy and sustainable transportation in Thailand that benefit the development of this GIIO report.
This GIIO report could not be accomplished without the efforts of the team of authors who are the CBI staff members and technical consultants: Thatyanne Gasparotto, Quan Anh Nguyen, Ornsaran Pomme Manuamorn, Phi Thi Minh Nguyet, Nabilla Gunawan, Julia Ambrosano, Bridget Boulle, and Caroline Harrison.
This GIIO report was funded by ADB through TA-9621 REG: Green and Innovative Finance Initiative for Scaling Up Southeast Asian Infrastructure. Judgment, if any, reflects CBI’s perspectives.
Green Infrastructure Investment Opportunities (GIIO) Report Series
Green infrastructure presents a huge investment opportunity globally, with an estimated USD100tn worth of climate compatible infrastructure required from now to 2030, in order to meet Paris Agreement emissions reduction targets. However, there remains a lack of identifiable, investmentready and bankable projects. There is also a lack of understanding of what types of assets and projects qualify for green financing.
In response to this challenge, CBI is developing a series of reports that aim to identify and demonstrate green infrastructure investment opportunities around the world. By so doing, it aims to raise awareness of what is green and where to invest, as well as to promote green bond issuance as a tool to finance green infrastructure.
The report series commenced with the GIIO Indonesia report, launched in May 2018, followed by five other reports – the latest being the GIIO Vietnam report, launched in April 2020. Future GIIO reports will include further exploration of opportunities in Asia-Pacific as well as in Latin America.¹
ADB recognizes China
as the People’s Republic of China, Siam
as Thailand, and Vietnam
as Viet Nam.
Climate Bonds Initiative
The Climate Bonds Initiative is an international investor-focused not-for-profit organisation working to mobilise the USD100tn bond market for climate change solutions.
It promotes investment in projects and assets needed for a rapid transition to a low carbon and climate resilient economy. The mission is to help drive down the cost of capital for largescale climate and infrastructure projects and to support governments seeking increased access to capital markets to meet climate and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction goals.
CBI carries out market analysis, policy research, market development; advises governments and regulators; and administers a global green bond standard and certification scheme. CBI screens green finance instruments against its Climate Bonds Taxonomy to determine alignment and uses sector specific criteria for certification.
A simplified version of the Climate Bonds Taxonomy is on page 59. More information on the Climate Bonds Standard and Certification Scheme can be found on page 21.
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ADB Foreword
As Asia and the Pacific continue on the path of recovery from the global COVID-19 pandemic, it remains imperative that the region’s recovery strategies do not undermine achievements to date in reducing dependency on fossil fuels and protecting the environment, for which national and regional infrastructure plans play a key role in economic growth and social development.
Southeast Asia has a major role to play in achieving the Paris Agreement goals and mitigating global warming, but we need to scale up our member countries’ ambitious climate projects to meet their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The region has made significant progress to scale up climate action, and we have witnessed a renewed momentum in the weeks and months up to COP26, but major challenges remain particularly on financing. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) estimates that Southeast Asian countries alone need $210 billion per year, but they currently face an estimated funding gap of over $100 billion per year.
ADB is committed to supporting its developing member countries in tackling climate change. ADB was the first multilateral development bank to set clear climate investment targets for 2030 in its Strategy and has now raised its ambition to deliver $100 billion in cumulative financing between 2019 and 2030 to combat climate change. ADB has recently launched two of the most innovative initiatives for Southeast Asia during the United Nations UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in November 2021 in Glasgow, UK: (i) the ADB Energy Transition Mechanism partnership (ETM), which will leverage a market-based approach to accelerate to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy; and (ii) the ASEAN Green Recovery Platform, with total pledges of $665 million managed by ADB to mobilize an additional $7 billion for low-carbon and climate-resilient infrastructure projects in Southeast Asia.