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As one of the innovative companies in Thailand GTZ will take part in this year's InnoMart in Bangkok. GTZ will present innovative concepts of sustainable development within the Thai-German Programme for Enterprise Competitiveness (PEC), with a special focus on renewable resources and energy-efficiency (Management Instruments, Bioplastics, Biomass, financial and eco-efficiency services).

For more information: InnoMart 2007

"Kitchen of the World". This is Thailand’s slogan at the ANUGA, the world's most important trade fair on food & beverages. Thailand will be the first partner country ever. The Thai-German Programme for Enterprise Competitiveness will support with business-to-business contacts and the promotion of organic food. In addition, GTZ will also help in organizing study tours on organic market development for Thai key players, both from public and private sector. The joint booth with the Department of Foreign Trade, the Office of the Permanent Secretary and the Ministry of Commerce will be in the Thai Pavilion.

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An MoU between GTZ, Maejo University, Earth Safe Foundation, Organic Agriculture Certification Thailand (ACT) and the Thai Organic Trade Association (TOTA) is under preparation. Its objectives are to promote and strengthen organic agriculture and organic product development, to facilitate production processes that meet standards and to increase awareness and appreciation of organic products in both domestic and international markets.

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H.E. Rungruang Isarangkura, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, and Dr. Michael Banzhaf, Deputy Head of Mission, German Embassy, gave the keynotes to the 5th Eco-Efficiency Forum on "Organic Agri-business" reflecting sustainable economic development, environmentally friendly production, energy efficiency and innovations for eco-efficient value chains. An excutive summary will be ready for download by this week.

Information & Publications:

• Organic Agri-Business - A status quo report for Thailand 2007: English, Thai
• Ecological Agriculture: History and Results of a Political Programme in Germany
• Organic Thailand: Boom or Bust! (in Thai)
• Organic market for Thai Products in Germany.
• Flyer: Organic Agri-business
• Announcement: English, Thai

Policy makers around the world have started activities to reduce resource use while at the same time increasing economic and social well-being, a vision that relates to the notion of 'sustainable consumption and production'. A range of diverse instruments is already applied to further these goals. With this hands-on guidance GTZ, the UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP) and the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, aims to provide an overview of selected policy instruments for boosting resource efficiency. It builds on the recent discussions and practical experiences both from developed and developing countries.

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The "Safety Week" is organized by the Department of Labour Protection and Welfair (DLPW), Ministry of Labour, features safety and health technology and management. GTZ is one of the participating companies presenting state-of-the-art know-how and services in the field of chemicals risk management.

Under the theme "Sustaining Asia Pacific Development" of the 7th Asia Pacific Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production (APRSCP), GTZ has conducted a workshop on "New Developments in Eco-Industrial Development", presenting state-of-the-art activities, methodologies, instruments and achievements in the field of sustainable industrial estate development in Asia (including China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, etc.).

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The German Technical Cooperation (GTZ Bangkok Office) and the Thai PREMAnet are organizing a Training of Consultants (ToC) in order to develop resource persons for disseminating their know-how and concepts in Profitable Environmental Management (PREMA) to enhance the competitiveness of Thai enterprises. This special training aims at the capacity and network building for eco-efficiency services for SMEs. For application, please use following application form.

For more information on PREMA: Concept of PREMA

Promotion of organic products and sustainable value chains are main fields of the Thai-German Programme for Enterprise Competitiveness. The main aim is to achieve higher market share through international certified (e.g. Naturland, IFOAM) organic products. Participation in the world's largest fair for organic products, in the BioFach, is one of the activities of the programme to establish business relationships between producers, processors and their international clients and partners. Special attention at the Biofach is given to: longan, shrimp, saa-paper and bio-plastics.

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GTZ Bangkok facilitated the Thai saa-paper industry to present and promote its environmentally friendly products at this year's Paperworld in Frankfurt. In addition to the fair and business meetings, the visits to paper related organizations and institutions have been organized. The delegation includes four saa-paper producers. Cooperation partners are the Department of Environmental Quality Promotion (DEQP), Industrial Promotion Centre Northern Thailand (IPC1), Department of Export Promotion (DEP) and others.

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Under the facilitation of the Chemicals Risk Management Project the Bangpoo Emergency Mutual Aid Group (BEMAG) has agreed to assist each other in emergency cases, prevention measures as well as conducting regularly emergency drills with the Bangpoo Industrial Estate Emergency Response Center. After the project ends, the BEMAG will continue part of the project activities - showing clearly that the private sectors are recognizing the importance of risk management, and that they take the issue very seriously. For further information see the MoU.
Members of BEMAG are: BASF (Thai) Co., Ltd., Bayer Thai Co., Ltd., Clariant Chemicals (Thailand) Co., Ltd., Ineos Asiatic Chemicals Co., Ltd., Siam PVS Chemicals Co., Ltd., Syngenta Crop Protection Co., Ltd.

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The discussion about a "sufficiency economy" is gaining increasing attention in the Thai society. Also the Thai interim government expressed its willingness to pursue economic policies, combining the free market with the principles of sufficiency. Stimulating eco-efficiency for agro-industry and promoting of organic agricultural products addresses not only to each individual enterprise, but also to areas, estates, zones or regional clusters, which sustainably shall offer natural resources and are compatible to environmental conditions.

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Dr. Charalthada Karnasutra, Director-General of the Department of Fisheries, announced that, following cooperation between the Department of Fisheries and the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the Department of Fisheries had invited Dr. Claus Gehlhaar, Director of the Bureau of Imported Goods Inspection in Bremen, one of Germany’s important customs checkpoints, to visit the shrimp production systems of private farms and shrimp inspection and quality assurance sections in the government sector. The visits were satisfactory and led to the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) relating to Thai shrimp quality inspection between Dr. Somying Piumsombun, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Fisheries and Dr. Claus Gehlhaa, Director of the Bureau of Imported Goods Inspection in Bremen, Germany. The signing of the MoU will result in cooperation over goods inspection that will benefit Thai shrimp exporters. For further information about the Thai-German cooperation project on: Promotion of Thai Marine Shrimp

Within the framework of the Thai-German Programme for Enterprise Competitiveness three Delegations will visit various institutions, places and events in the above mentioned matters. The delegations consist of high-ranking Thai officials from various departments and ministries. Furthermore, a delegation of Thai companies will visit various German companies for cooperation in the field of biomass and biofuel, which is partly sponsored by the German Office for Foreign Trade under the Ministry of Economics and Technology.

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