On 24 September 2021, the Royal Thai Embassy in Colombo organized an online seminar “From Sufficiency Economy to Bio-Circular-Green (BCG): A Policy in Practice,” with participation of the Thai Trade Center in Chennai, and INSEE Ecocycle Lanka. The seminar highlighted BCG as Thailand’s national agenda, adopted with the aim of building a more sustainable and inclusive future. BCG Model is guided by the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy, which serves as Thailand's homegrown development approach that emphasizes human empowerment and resilience building.

Ambassador-Designate Poj Harnpol delivered an opening remark for the seminar, stressing that Thailand sees BCG as a new economic paradigm that strives for a balanced and sustainable growth, and a strategy for post-COVID recovery. He pointed out the continuity that the Embassy has placed on promoting economic ties with Sri Lanka through the theme of sustainability, as reflected in the seminars in 2017 and 2019, both of which focused on the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy. He also indicated that, with Sri Lanka passing over the Chairmanship of BIMSTEC to Thailand in December of this year, the Thai Government will prioritize BCG as the development agenda under Thailand’s chairmanship of BIMSTEC.

Video of the Seminar can be viewed at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Nm3cT72qZM53ZH6ZdxHraEM3SdFmm2sB/view?usp=sharing