UPCOMING EVENT: Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program Regional Sustainability through Research, Collaboration and Dialogue
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Public Seminar (Hybrid event)
Toward’s Thailand’s Green Transformation:
Research on Emerging Challenges and Opportunities
29 July 2025: 10:00 – 15:00
Alumni Meeting Room, 12th Floor, Kasem Udyanin Building
(Faculty of Political Science Building 3), Chulalongkorn University
Co-organized by: Center for Social Development Studies, Chulalongkorn University; Climate Finance Network Thailand; Local Alike; Sustainable Agriculture Foundation Thailand; Sustainable Development Foundation; Towards Organic Asia
Attaining green transformation is the challenge that will define the 21st Century. Ambitious vision and leadership are needed that can bring together diverse actors around pathways that are sustainable, peaceful, and just. While a global challenge, achieving green transformation in practice requires action in innumerable localities that is democratized, accountable and inclusive. Actionable knowledge is needed to guide green transformation that is produced inclusively involving those directly affected by sustainability challenges.
The ‘Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program’ (JFMFP) is a capacity strengthening and research program launched in July 2024 that supports young individuals to address pressing environmental and social challenges through research, collaboration, and regional dialogue. JFMFP has been undertaken as a partnership between the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS), Chulalongkorn University and five organizations in Thailand who co-host this public seminar. The themes of the fellowship program have encompassed: organic farming and agroecology; coastal community resource governance; community based tourism; and climate change, including farmer climate adaptation and climate finance.
At the heart of the JFMFP is the co-creation of knowledge and solutions through collaborative research. At this public seminar, the key insights of these research projects and their implications for policy and practice will be shared by the JFMFP fellows, their host organization partners and other collaborators. Alongside the presentations, poster presentations and a photograph exhibition will detail the research.
The meeting will be held in English. Simultaneous translation will be available between Thai and English.
Please register here.
Agenda (draft)
| Time | Item |
|---|---|
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Registration / poster walk |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Welcome remarks Representative of Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University |
| Session 1: Community-led transformations in food and climate adaptation | |
| 10:15 – 10:45 |
“Walking Alongside Communities: Supporting Community-led Adaptation Resilience beyond Climate Change in Northern Thailand‘s Highlands” Introduction to community role-play game • Presenter: Shao Meng (JFMFP) “From Trust to Recognition: Building a Participatory and Community-grounded Seed System in Thailand” • Presenter: Zhou Yuting (JFMFP) |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Commentary and Q&A: Dr. Chaya Vaddhanaphuti, Chiang Mai University Kingkorn Narintarakul Na Ayutdhaya Moderator: Narumon Paiboonsittikun (TOA) |
| Session 2: Electric Vehicles and Thailand’s Green Transformation | |
| 11:15 – 12:15 |
Opening Presentation: “Can Chinese EV Investment contribute to Thailand’s Green Transformation?” • Presenter: Yuan Ye (JFMFP) Panel discussion: • Sarinee Achavanuntakul, CFNT • Jinmei Liu, Friends of Nature • Somnuck Jongmeewasin, EEC WATCH (t.b.c.) • Ployrung Sibplang, Epigram News (t.b.c.) Moderator: Yu Yin |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | Lunch |
| Session 3: Local development – Challenges, Opportunities and Ways Forward | |
| 13:00 – 13:30 |
“Connecting Thailand’s Community-based Tourism to Chinese Travelers: Local Voices, Emerging Trends, and Collaboration” • Presenter: Xueying Mai (JFMFP) “Camera, Community, and the Act of Claiming: Visual Participation and Everyday Struggles for the Right to Stay in Coastal Thailand” • Presenter: Jiao Xiaofang (JFMFP) Film showing |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Commentary and Q&A: Wanvipa Phanumat (Local Alike) Commentator 2 (t.b.c.) Moderator: Tianjie Ma |
| Session 4: Synthesis: Towards green transformation through co-produced knowledge | |
| 14:00 – 15:00 |
Panelists: • Sarinee Achavanuntakul, Climate Finance Network Thailand • Representative, Local Alike • Supa Yaimuang, Sustainable Agriculture Foundation Thailand • Ravadee Prasertcharoensuk, Sustainable Development Foundation • Kittipon Phummisuttikul, Towards Organic Asia Q&A Moderator: Carl Middleton |