News Briefing The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) and the Thai Greenhouse Gas Management Organization (TGO) have launched FTIX, the first carbon credit trading platform in Thailand, which will allow companies to offset greenhouse gas emission reductions generated in their operations through transactions. Impact Analysis FTIX, the first carbon credit trading platform in Thailand, can provide carbon credits, and transactions of renewable energy and renewable energy certificates (REC), helping companies to offset greenhouse gases generated during business activities, which should serve as an alternative for companies to reduce emissions. Since this platform is connected with the TGO system and linked to greenhouse gas emission reduction and the monitoring of Thailand, its primary objective should enable 45 industries of 12,000 companies as well as government agencies to buy, sell and, track down their carbon emissions, with FTIX being managed by FTI in the future. Although FTIX is only authorized to carry out domestic trade with the government's T-VER program (Thailand Voluntary Emission Reduction Program) for the time being, Thailand will invite companies and institutions from ASEAN member states to use the FTIX platform through the ASEAN Secretariat to facilitate carbon credit transactions in the ASEAN region. At present, global carbon trading systems from most regions are still at the trial stage, and there are only a few systems to be traded across borders (such as the European Union). However, as early as 2022, Thailand launched a demonstration version of the carbon trading platform within the country, and concluded the “Transfer Agreement of Carbon Credits” with Switzerland, being the very first carbon trading implemented between countries. On this occasion, it further pushed forward a carbon trading platform, which can be seen as another big step upward in terms of system perfection. Aside from the impact on companies by the net-zero waves, various governments of countries, worldwide, have already felt the pressure of how they can create an environment suitable for the development of low-carbon industries. Other than traditional policy tools such as investment credits or tax relief, the construction of renewable energy and the above-mentioned carbon trading platforms are also considered important factors of deliberation in the assessment of the investment environment. From the contextual perspective among Southeast Asian countries, Thailand is believed to be a very active country in this regard. Be there no other factors to be taken into account, it is expected that Southeast Asia will be the next region for the development of Taiwan’s PCB industry outside of mainland China. As such, it is suggested that policies and infrastructure related to net zero should be included in the deliberation of the evaluation.