The Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment (JGSEE)
King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT)

Transition Policy and Management

Transitioning to a low-carbon organization, whether public or private, within a relatively tight timeframe, necessitates comprehensive planning. This includes setting targets based on scientific knowledge and objectives for reducing various carbon emissions, as well as defining the starting point and strategies required to achieve these objectives. Before finalizing strategies and measures, it may be necessary to anticipate/test how these initiatives will impact the objectives, both positively and negatively, on businesses and organizations. This allows for the development of appropriate supporting measures, including an understanding of the carbon market mechanism and carbon credit trading.

Furthermore, once implementation begins, periodic evaluation and progress monitoring are essential at all levels of governance, from national to provincial, district, and municipal levels. Policy coherence and coordinated transition plans are necessary. Additionally, it is evident that such transition processes require multi-stakeholder involvement, making the task even more complex. These stakeholders may include policymakers in the public sector, decision-makers in the business sector, planners, designers, operators, and implementers of clean technology solutions, as well as civil society sectors protecting citizen rights and public benefits.

Therefore, the transition process requires guided and facilitated governance, expedited by participatory processes that define vision, learning, and experimentation together. Since knowledge and skills to undertake these tasks are relatively new and have limited learning resources both domestically and internationally, educational management must rely on enriching experiences from the actual work of the instructors themselves, in addition to knowledge from various academic articles.