Thailand’s national carbon body has launched a centralised digital platform to connect private developers with government land management agencies on forestry-based carbon projects.
A researcher reviewing satellite forest mapping data on a tablet while flying over Thailand’s tropical forests, supporting digital carbon project planning and monitoring efforts. AI generated picture.
The Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organisation (TGO), which oversees the country’s domestic carbon credit scheme, introduced the TGO Forestry Platform as a structured mechanism to drive public-private collaboration in forest-based project development.
The platform features an interactive map-based interface. Users can explore active projects, identify community forest areas open to development, and assess the carbon sequestration potential of specific sites. The tool is available at forest.tgo.or.th.
Three government agencies are connected to the platform: the Royal Forest Department, the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, and the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources.
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‘The government aims to increase carbon sequestration capacity to 120 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2037, maintaining this level through 2050,’ said Preeyaporn Suwannakes, Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
The launch reflects a broader effort across emerging markets in Asia-Pacific to build the institutional infrastructure needed to scale nature-based carbon credit supply. By establishing a formal coordination mechanism between private developers and public agencies, the platform addresses one of the sector’s persistent barriers: identifying viable project sites with the necessary regulatory endorsement to advance to pre-feasibility and beyond.
For developers and businesses with forestry carbon pipelines, the TGO Forestry Platform reduces the cost and complexity of site identification and early-stage evaluation. The integrated sequestration assessment tool and direct access to three government land agencies lower the time and effort typically required to take a project from initial land identification through to development. As Thailand pursues its 2037 sequestration targets, the platform stands to accelerate the pace at which new forestry carbon projects enter the country’s pipeline.
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