Following the commitments within the Global Methane Pledge and the COP29 Declaration to Reduce Methane from Organic Waste (ROW declaration), signatory countries have pledged to significantly reduce waste methane emissions by 2030. While this will pose an increase of political and financial resources driven towards the waste sector, there is a need to ensure the implementation of measures to reduce methane emissions is in alignment with the Environmental Justice Principles for Fast Action on Waste and Methane.
In order to support policy makers and implementers to ensure effective solutions to reduce waste methane, GAIA, with support from the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) and the Global Methane Hub presents this series of technical publications to address challenging issues related to methane emissions in the waste sector.
Addressing Landfill Methane Emissions with Environmental Justice outlines the risks of business-as-usual (BAU) approaches to landfill methane mitigation and makes the case for a sustainable, justice-centered response. It draws on international evidence, current policy trends, and community experience to identify what works, and what doesn’t, when it comes to landfill closure and organics management.
(EN) Addressing Landfill Methane Emissions with Environmental Justice
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Zero Waste as An Effective Climate Strategy: Avoiding Warming Tradeoffs from Incineration assesses the long-term global warming impacts of three waste management strategies —business-as-usual disposal-based practices such as dumping and landfilling (BAU), incineration, and zero waste practices such as source separation and treatment of organics and recyclables (ZW). The analysis focuses on three urban contexts: Lagos (Nigeria), Barueri (Brazil), and Quezon City (Philippines). Using the Solid Waste Emissions Estimation Tool (SWEET) and the Finite Amplitude Impulse Response (FaIR) climate model, the analysis calculates projected temperature impacts for each strategy through 2060.
(EN) Zero Waste as An Effective Climate Strategy Avoiding Warming Tradeoffs from Incineration
(ES) To follow
