BangkokDi

@BangkokDi

Researcher working on sustainable urban development and climate change resilience. Keen parkrunner and trail runner. Tweeting in a personal capacity.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    22 Apr 2020

    Many city governments are taking the opportunity of the COVID-19 to re-shape and re-think urban environments and the way citizens move within and interact with them. This thread will be a compendium of such forward-thinking city administrations enabling positive change.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    And here it is.... Typical February air 😞

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  3. Retweeted
    Feb 4

    8.8 million people die prematurely each year because of air pollution. We can’t keep underestimating the importance of street trees & the urban tree canopy in addressing pollution & much more. Trees act as air filters, air coolers, & more. Via

    Why cities should plant more trees
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  4. Feb 4

    We had a good run but now it's looking back to "normal" February conditions. Hopefully this will improve over the course of the day after the initial morning peak. But it would be nicer not to have to base activities on this!

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  5. Retweeted
    Feb 4

    We need good data to tackle Here's how Hong Kong is improving its air quality by using roadside sensors to detect vehicles with the dirtiest fumes and forcing owners to get them fixed. From 👇🏽

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  6. Feb 4

    Read summary here

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  7. Feb 4

    "the Clean Air Act by the TCAN... seeks to reduce air pollution by addressing these underlying structural issues of burning. This citizen-driven bill also addresses transboundary air pollution: it has a penalty clause for Thai entities who contribute to transboundary haze".

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  8. Feb 4

    "Instead, indebted smallholder farmers, who themselves must bear the heavy costs of agricultural pollution and other forms of air pollution, continue to be cast as the primary perpetrators and threatened with legal action".

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  9. Feb 4

    "To date, there have been virtually no public campaigns to boycott maize, sugar, or sugarcane, or discussions to penalize transgressions of sustainable industry standards by these corporations... " I would love to buy guaranteed burn-free sugar but there is no labelling...

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  10. Feb 4

    "Thailand is one of the top three global rice producers & the sector ...cultivates 10 million hectares (over 38,000 square miles), & burns over 4 million tons of rice straw annually, with the emissions dispersed throughout the central, lower northern, & north-eastern provinces"

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  11. Feb 4

    "As the Thai gov neither provides financing or other mechanisms to encourage non-burning methods of agricultural waste nor does it stipulate a minimum wage for cane cutters, smallholders with fluctuating incomes & ongoing production costs have to pollute their own homelands"

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  12. Feb 4

    Worth a read! We've been fortunate so far this year that the air has been ok in Bangkok, but that's largely due to wind directions & rain, not lack of burning.

    First op-ed out in - on the health and climate problems caused by agricultural burning in Thailand and beyond and how to stop it
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  13. Retweeted
    Feb 3

    It is the pointless, moronic burning I’ll never understand. Not one person gained or saved anything from setting fire to these bamboo leaves but we all lost a bit of our ability to fight off lung diseases (of which there’s one about, you may have heard )

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  14. Retweeted
    Feb 1

    pollution is on the rise in Cambodia, mainly caused by industrial factories, diesel vehicles, and burning fuel. SEI and worked with its government to establish the 'Clean Air Plan of Cambodia'. Read more in :

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  15. Retweeted
    Jan 31
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    In short, what they have done is to make the spill less visible, but potentially much more damaging to the environment than it would have been if they had tried to recover and dispose of the oil.

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  16. Jan 31

    I have to say, this January has felt much better than previous years Mornings were bad for the first half of Jan but afternoons generally ok. And the second half of January has seen quite a lot of green! I've been able to take my son for walks almost every day.

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  17. Jan 30

    I love this immense and beautiful climbing flower going up all 5 storeys of this small apartment building.

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  18. Jan 30

    Many European cities restrict car parking, reduce speed limits, pull the most polluting vehicles off the roads or ban half of vehicles according to odd/even number plates. These are usually balanced by cheaper, or free, public transport and cycle hire.

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  19. Jan 28

    This avocado tree is covered in blossom and bristling with butterflies. I'll have to come back on about 4 months to devour the avocadoes!

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  20. Retweeted
    Jan 26

    City is important for but not everyone has equal access. New research in Kenya and Thailand shows that use depends on three key factors: how close it is, how affordable it is, and how useable it is. Read more:

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  21. Jan 25

    From 1 March car ads in France need a disclaimer to suggest walking, cycling or public transport instead. Imagine this in Thailand. It'd be part of reframing the prevailing discourse that "cars rule supreme". There's so much to do to end car dependency

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