Overall Progress for Thailand‘ s intelligent Carbon Credit Registry System Akekaluck Hemtanon, Bunyarit Uyyanonvara Abstract— Thailand is a country with awareness in the importance of solution on the problem of global warming. Thailand is one of the countries in the group of Non-Annex 1. The country has no obligation in reducing the emission of greenhouse gas. Although Thailand has no obligation in reducing the emission of greenhouse gas, the guideline stipulated in Kyoto Protocol grants the chance for the developing countries such as Thailand to participate in reducing the amount of emission under the project of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). This paper discusses about the big picture of activities arranged by Thailand in studying and developing the information and intelligent system called “Carbon Credit Registry System”. The system is used to keep CDM project information and result of project tracking. The system data framework is based on the standard of Data exchange standard for United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (DES) which can be easily extensible to international connection in the future. Index Terms—Annex I, Non-Annex I, CDM, DES, CERs, Kyoto Protocol I. INTRODUCTION T hailand is a country with the awareness in the importance of solution on the problem of global warming with several countries. Therefore, the cooperation is set in solving the problem of world climatic change by ratifying in the United Nations Convention on climate change on 28 th December, 1994, and ratifying in Kyoto Protocol on 28 th August, 2002. Thailand is one of the countries in the group of Non-Annex 1[1][6] which is the country has no obligation in reducing the emission of greenhouse gas. Although Thailand has no obligation in reducing the emission of greenhouse gas, the guideline stipulated in Kyoto Protocol grants the chance for the developing countries such as Thailand to participate in reducing the amount of emission under the project of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)[1][6]. This is the project launched for helping the developed countries in conforming to the obligation in reducing the emission of greenhouse gas. The investment is in the project to reduce the emission of greenhouse gas in the developing countries. The project proving the actual reduction of greenhouse gas will receive A.Hemtanon is with Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology,Thammasat University, 131 Moo 5, Tiwanont Road, Bangkadi, Muang, Pathumthani,12000,Thailand(e-mail: akekaluck.h@gmail.com). B.Uyyanonvara is with Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, 131 Moo 5, Tiwanont Road, Bangkadi, Muang, Pathumthani,12000,Thailand(e-mail:bunyarit@siit.tu.ac.th) the credit called Certified Emission Reductions (CERs)[10] [17]. This CERs is a type of carbon credit sold and purchased in the carbon market. However, it is the product in the type of title deed of the reduced amount of greenhouse gas and will be calculated in the emission of greenhouse gas of Thailand. Therefore, Thailand establishes ―Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization (Public Organization)‖ or ―TGO‖[17]. This is established under the supervision of Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. The main objective is to analyze, synthesize, and give the opinion on the ratification of project to reduce the emission of greenhouse gas following the clean development mechanism as well as assessing the result of certified project, promoting the project development and market of certified emission of greenhouse gas, being the center about the operational situation of greenhouse gas, creating the database on the certified project and the sale of the certified emission of greenhouse gas, promoting and developing the efficiency along with giving some suggestion to public and private sectors on the management of greenhouse gas. Thailand realizes the collection of data by implementing the information technology in developing the system to serve the connection with other countries in the future. II. BACKGROUND A.1 what’ s CDM Project The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) [1] project was created to help developing countries to comply with the obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The realization of investment projects reduces greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries. The project can prove that it actually reduces greenhouse gases. Credit will be called Certified Emission Reductions ( CERs) [2][3] .CERs are carbon credits which are the type of trading in carbon markets. However, as referenced in the document, it is to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases and used to calculate the emissions of the country. A.2 CDM Project in Thailand Nowadays, there are 221 projects with Letter of Approval (LoA)[17] in Thailand (classified following the types of projects by UNFCCC into 2 types; 1. General project into 214 projects and 2. PoA into 7 projects). The amount of greenhouse gas expected to reduce following the project operation (Expected CERs) is 12,710,309 ton Carbon Dioxide compared per year. Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2014 Vol I, WCE 2014, July 2 - 4, 2014, London, U.K. ISBN: 978-988-19252-7-5 ISSN: 2078-0958 (Print); ISSN: 2078-0966 (Online) WCE 2014