BRUSSELS, Dec 14 (TNA) – Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha had a roundtable meeting with high-level European executives and proposed the sustainable and effective development of infrastructures, electric vehicles and ASEAN trade.
Gen Prayut joined the C-Suite Roundtable Luncheon organized by the EU-ASEAN Business Council.
On the occasion, he proposed cooperation on the quality and sustainable development of infrastructures through green finance. He said that many organizations and banks in the European Union supported the green finance funds of ASEAN.
He hoped that the Global Gateway initiative would increase EU investment in sustainable infrastructure development in Thailand and other Southeast Asian nations.
According to Gen Prayut, ASEAN is promoting clean energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It will raise the percentage of renewable energy to 23% of the total energy it consumes within 2025. Thailand started to use clean energy for production and its electric vehicle industry and also plans to seriously develop green hydrogen.
The prime minister said he expected EU to support the movements of ASEAN through facilitation and tariff reduction for the import and export of environment-friendly products between EU and ASEAN and to open “Green Lane” for green products. (TNA)
