Thailand’s Greenhouse Gas Management Organization (TGO / อบก.) has announced a public seminar titled “Planting trees — can you really get carbon credits?” to be held in Nong Khai Province, a northeastern Thai province bordering Laos on the Mekong River. The event is framed as a community-level education session, suggesting the target audience includes local landowners and prospective project developers rather than established market participants.
The seminar is organised under TGO’s Climate Action Academy (CAA) and appears to be part of an ongoing outreach series linked to the Premium T-VER programme. Interested participants can register through a Google Forms link published in the announcement. No event date, agenda, speaker list, or session duration is provided in the source.
The broader context is TGO’s T-VER (Thailand Voluntary Emission Reduction Program), Thailand’s national voluntary carbon crediting mechanism under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, which covers nature-based and afforestation project types among other pathways.
Carbon Market Context
- In-house research context only — not claims from the source. The afforestation/reforestation pathway is the evident focus of this seminar. Internationally recognised methodologies relevant to tree-planting credits include ACR-AR-DEGRADED-LANDS-V1-2 (Afforestation & Reforestation of Degraded Land, ACR) and ISOMETRIC-REFORESTATION-V1-2, though T-VER uses its own domestically approved methodologies; the international standards are listed here for comparison only.
- The CSI-GLOBAL-TREE-C-SINK-4000001EN-V1-0 standard (March 2024) is another research-flagged comparator for tree-based carbon sink certification, though again its applicability to T-VER projects would require verification.
- Notable active creators in the afforestation/reforestation space globally (per in-house research) include Varaha Climate AG, Global Evergreening Alliance, and Clean Air Action Corporation — none are named in the source.
- Premium T-VER is a higher-integrity tier within Thailand’s voluntary carbon market, designed to align T-VER credits more closely with international standards such as ICROA and Article 6 requirements; this context may explain TGO’s regional outreach to build a pipeline of eligible projects.
Source
- ปลูกต้นไม้ ได้คาร์บอนเครดิตจริงหรือ? จังหวัดหนองคายTGO (องค์การบริหารจัดการก๊าซเรือนกระจก) / T-VER News, date not stated