The private sector should be a key partner in international climate change decision-making, states an opinion piece in the Jakarta Post. In the piece, Regan Suzuki Pairojmahakij maintains that ‘... rather than seeing the private sector only as a threat, we should also see it as a critical part of the solution.’ The best chance of developing solutions to both the climate change challenges and the economic and overall development of the world’s most marginalized communities, he suggests, is by leveraging sustainable supply-chain development by communities in partnership with private sector actors in an intelligent and strategic policy environment.
Regan Suzuki Pairojmahakij is a senior program officer at the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC), an international organization based in Bangkok.