Annual International Training Course Proposal

Theme: Climate Change

1. Course Title: Climate Change Adaptation: Pathways for Sustainable Development
2. Duration: 10 working days between May 2 – May 13, 2022
3. Background and Rationale:
Climate change, an undeniable global issue, has a strong influence on sustainable development. The
importance of climate change issue can be seen in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) as Goal No. 13, which aims to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. Warming
climate results in the alteration of natural ecosystems and productivity of human food source, thus hinder
the speed of sustainable development. Developing and least developed countries will be affected the
most, partly due to the lack of abilities to cope with those changes. Although redressing changed climate
system may not be possible at this stage, mitigation and adaptation measures can be employed to minimize
the impact of climate change on several sectors. Thus, both mitigation and adaptation measures can be
viewed as tools in shaping global development direction.
The real problem in implementing adaptation measures lies on the fact that the understanding on
adaptation measure concept is limited in poor developing and least developed countries. At times,
adaptation measures employed in one local area may not be applicable for another local area, thus the
design of policy or program that is appropriate to each locality is crucial. This training course aims to provide
such needed information to the participants via lectures, classroom activities, and field visits. Adaptation
practices in Thailand such as in smart farming agricultural sector and micro-grid energy production system
will be covered to provide the participants with best case practices.
Chiang Mai is generally the perfect location for such training course as it is the second largest city in
Thailand where man-made environment and many kinds of natural resources and ecosystem services can
be accessed within short distance. Impacts of climate change can be visibly observed here as well as the
adaptation measures practices that have been implemented, thus, cause-effect-solution loop can be
completed within one locality. In addition to that, Chiang Mai University is also located here with the
availability of many research facilities and experienced researchers, which can directly benefit the training
course proposed.

4. Objectives: The training course aims to enhance participants with the knowledge in climate change
adaptation that strongly facilitates sustainable development through the reduction of climate change’s
impacts on livelihood. In addition, the course also intends to provide hands-on experience for the
participants in various aspects related to climate change adaptation planning and implementation via class
exercises, project assignment and field trips.

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5. Course Contents:
5.1 Course Outline: The outline of the topic to be covered in this course are listed in the following table.
Day Topic Time Participants/Lecturer
1 Registration 8.30-9.00 Staff
(2 May, 2022) Opening Ceremony 9.00-9.15 Head, Environmental Science
Welcome Remarks Research Center

Program Orientation 9.15-9.30 Training team

Lecture 9.45-12.00 Dr. Kullapa Chanawanno
 Climate change: background and
future trends
Lecture 13.00-16.00 Dr. Nuttipon Yabueng
 Impacts of human activities on
climate change
 Impacts of climate change on
various sectors
2 Country’s Report Presentation 9.00-12.00 All teaching team and
(3 May, 2022)  Participants will present their 13.00-16.00 participants
country report about climate
change, policy related, action
taken, and etc.
3 Lecture 9.00-12.00 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alice Sharp
(4 May, 2022)  Estimation of GHGs emission
Workshop 13.00-16.00 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alice Sharp
 GHGs calculation exercise Dr. Pumis Thuptimdeang
Dr. Kullapa Chanawanno
Dr. Nuttipon Yabueng
Ms. Palita Kunchorn
4 Workshop 9.00-12.00 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alice Sharp

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 Day Topic Time Participants/Lecturer
(5 May, 2022)  GHGs calculation exercise 13.00-16.00 Dr. Pumis Thuptimdeang
Dr. Kullapa Chanawanno
Dr. Nuttipon Yabueng
Ms. Palita Kunchorn

5 Lecture 9.00-12.00 Dr. Pumis Thuptimdeang

(6 May, 2022)  Climate change mitigation
measures
Lecture 13.00-16.00 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alice Sharp
 Climate change adaptation
measures
6 Lecture 9.00-12.00 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alice Sharp
(9 May, 2022)  Climate change adaptation policy
design
Workshop 13.00-16.00 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alice Sharp
 Adaptation measures exercise Dr. Pumis Thuptimdeang
Dr. Kullapa Chanawanno
Dr. Nuttipon Yabueng
Ms. Palita Kunchorn
7 Lecture 9.00-12.00 Dr. Nuttipon Yabueng
(10 May,  Tools in climate change monitoring
2022)
Workshop 13.00-16.00 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alice Sharp
 Tools in climate change monitoring Dr. Pumis Thuptimdeang
Dr. Kullapa Chanawanno
Dr. Nuttipon Yabueng
Ms. Palita Kunchorn
8 Lecture 9.00-12.00 Dr. Pumis Thuptimdeang

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 Day Topic Time Participants/Lecturer
(11 May,  Disaster preparedness
2022)  Case studies
Workshop 13.00-16.00 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alice Sharp
Virtual Fieldtrip Dr. Pumis Thuptimdeang
(Air Monitoring Station & Landslide Dr. Kullapa Chanawanno
Monitoring station) Dr. Nuttipon Yabueng
Ms. Palita Kunchorn
9 Lecture 9.00-16.00 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alice Sharp
(12 May,  Climate Change MRV and M&E
2022)  Case studies

10 Final presentation 9.00-16.00 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alice Sharp

(13 May, Presentation of the country adaptation plan Dr. Pumis Thuptimdeang
2022) Dr. Kullapa Chanawanno
Dr. Nuttipon Yabueng
Ms. Palita Kunchorn

5.2 Practices: There are four class exercises in this course. In all exercises, participants will work in group
to finish the tasks and submit their works in the provided worksheet or short presentation. The
topics for practice exercise are as follows:
1. Estimation of greenhouse gas emission from human activities
2. Identification of potential adaptation measures for selected sectors.
3. Policy design for adaptation measures
4. Tools in climate change condition monitoring

5.3 Advance Assignments:

1) Country Report:

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 A maximum of 10 pages country report should be prepared prior to the course starting date following
the format provided. Contents of the report should include general information about the country,
current situation related to climate change (e.g. national emission inventory, impacts of climate change
and affected sector, and government policy related to climate change). Twenty minutes presentation
of the report should also be prepared in advanced.
2) Reading Assignment:
Prior to the course participation, participant should read the following book chapter;
Denton, F., T.J. Wilbanks, A.C. Abeysinghe, I. Burton, Q. Gao, M.C. Lemos, T. Masui, K.L. O’Brien, and K.
Warner, 2014: Climate-resilient pathways: adaptation, mitigation, and sustainable development. In:
Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects.
Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change [Field, C.B., V.R. Barros, D.J. Dokken, K.J. Mach, M.D. Mastrandrea, T.E. Bilir, M.
Chatterjee, K.L. Ebi, Y.O. Estrada, R.C. Genova, B. Girma, E.S. Kissel, A.N. Levy, S. MacCracken, P.R.
Mastrandrea, and L.L.White (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New
York, NY, USA, pp. 1101-1131.
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WGIIAR5-Chap20_FINAL.pdf
3) Project Assignment: -
6. Participants Criteria: Participants may include academic staff and government officers who has basic
knowledge in environmental science or has to deal with environmental issues in their work.
7. Venue: Training Venue: All lectures will be held online

8. Expected Results: Upon completion of this training course, participants will be able to perform the
following tasks;
1) Explain the relationship between climate change and sustainable development with the emphasis
on how adaptation measures can be used to facilitate sustainable development.
2) Understand theory behind GHGs emission calculation and calculate gas emission from selected
sector.
3) Develop adaptation policy/action plan that is suitable for local conditions.

9. Evaluation: Participants will be evaluated by the following assignments;

1) Participants should participate and submit 4 class exercises as indicated in class outline
2) Participants should present their final project assignment
3) Attendance to course activities should not be less than 80% of the course period.

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10. Institution:
10.1 Executing/Implementing Agency
1) Implementing Agency: Environmental Science Research Center (ESRC), Faculty of Science, Chiang
Mai University
2) Capability
a) Personnel: ESRC is the research center where faculty members with various academic
background related to environmental science are working together to tackle environmental problems
in both local and regional context. In total, there are 30 faculty members with doctorate degree and
6o graduate students working on research topics emphasizing on environmental problems. Research
expertise at the center includes, but not limited to, atmospheric air pollution, waste management,
water resource management, reforestation technique, and climate change adaptation. Faculty
members at the center have planned for this training course together to ensure that our expertise will
smoothly complementing each other.
b) Training Materials/Equipment Availability: Due to the fact that the center works under strong
collaboration from all Departments, equipment available at the Faculty of Science are ready to be
used in this training course. As for training materials, will be prepared and reviewed by the working
group before using in the training course.
c) Accommodation: Chiang Mai University has its own hotel known as UNISERVE CMU. The
accommodation is clean, close to the university and other tourist attractions of Chiang Mai, thus,
location will be very convenient for the participants.
3) Address: Environmental Science Research Center,
Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University,
239 Huay Kaew Road, Tambon Suthep, Mueng District,
Chiang Mai 50200
4) Contact persons:
1. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alice Sharp (Training Course Working Group Leader) E-mail: [email protected]
2. Dr. Kullapa Chanawanno (Working Group Member) E-mail: [email protected]
3. Dr. Pumis Thuptimdang (Working Group Member) E-mail: [email protected]
4. Dr. Nuttipon Yabueng (Working Group Member) E-mail: [email protected]
5. Ms. Palita Kunchorn (Working Group Member)
5) Phone/Fax/Website: Phone: 053-943479

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 Fax: 053943479, 053943470
Website: http://www.es.science.cmu.ac.th
10.2 Collaborative Organizations
1) Forest Restoration Research Unit (FORRU)
Address: Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University Huay Kaew Road, Chaing Mai 50200
Contact person: Asst Prof. Dr. Sutthathorn Chairuagsri (E-mail: [email protected])
Website: www.forru.org, Facebook page: @forestrestorationresearchunit
2) Energy Research and Development Institute of Nakornping (ERDI)
Address: 155 Moo 2 Mae Hia, Mueang Chiang Mai District, Chiang Mai 50100
Website: http://www.erdi.cmu.ac.th