Dr. Nuwong Chollacoop’s insightful information shed light on the global, regional, and Thai progress made so far in the activities that contribute to SDGs and where they are headed. As a botanist, Dr Piyakaset Suksathan presented the vision of the Botanical Garden Organization which is “The World Class Botanic Garden for Sustainable Future” and the mission statement that “To be the world-class standard botanic garden through ex-situ conservation, research and creative value-added for the sustainability of biodiversity”. He also mentioned about Biodiversity credits or Biocredits which is the incentive-type mechanism to measure the impacts of biodiversity on development sites and stewardship sites. This mechanism helps to manage biodiversity as an asset and has the potential to create and sustain biodiversity conservation impacts in the long term. Finally, Dr. Pattakorn Varayonpinit shared information on funding opportunities designed to encourage the researchers who contribute plant knowledge to the business. He also emphasised examining the products of lemongrass and melon, which are the current collaboration projects between the Faculty of Science of Burapha University and the Chonburi Chamber of Commerce.

          Ultimately, the session emphasised the active participation of Botany as an indispensable element for effectively attaining our shared SDGs objectives and the importance of fostering robust collaboration of both local and global scales.