Celebrating methane reduction advancements in the waste sector guided by the Environmental Justice Principles
The Global Action Hub on Waste Methane and Environmental Justice is an international online space to collectively assess, address, and celebrate the advancements on this field of climate action and support the implementation of the Global Methane Pledge and the COP 29 Declaration on Reducing Methane from Organic Waste (ROW Declaration) in alignment with the Environmental Justice Principles.
Launched in July 2024 at the Methane Action and Environmental Justice Summit in Tanzania, the GAH is an open space to support all those working to this agenda and share expertise, strategise, celebrate, and ultimately hold an accountability space for environmental justice in the intersection between waste and climate.
Currently facilitated by GAIA whose members are deeply engaged in promoting and implementing zero waste solutions as climate champions, the GAH is inspired by the great momentum and years of building the intersection between waste and climate, especially since the launch of the Global Methane Pledge at COP26 in 2021.
Since then, several promising political and financial interests in tackling methane emissions from the waste sector have surfaced, yet it is crucial that those interventions must align with environmental justice principles to ensure methane emissions reduction go hand-in-hand with social and economical benefits for all stakeholders and that no one is left behind.
JOIN THE GLOBAL ACTION HUB
Join the 4th quarterly meeting and learn more about the importance and feasibility of financing zero waste systems from Climate Policy Initiative’s recent report. We will also look at the case of Durban with a cost-benefit analysis to be presented by groundWork. Register here.
This discussion space is relevant especially for:
- Policy makers and government officials
- Non-government organizations
- Implementers, waste workers, and wastepickers
- Think tanks
- Philanthropists
GLOBAL ACTION HUB WEBINARS
1st Quarterly Meeting (12 Sep 2024)
In this inaugural call, we looked at the State of Play on Waste Methane Reduction and Environmental Justice, as well as some of the best practices from Chile, Ghana, and India. The space also served as a place to celebrate progress and express mutual support towards methane emissions and environmental justice.
Speakers: Harshad Barde (SWACH, India), Tamara Ortega (Fundacion Basura, Chile), Daniel Nkrumah (La Dade Kotopon Municipal Assembly, Ghana).
2nd Quarterly Meeting (12 Dec 2024)
With the recently concluded COP29, the meeting focused on the overall results from COP on waste and methane and a report back from the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. Recognizing the impacts of Paris Agreement Article 6, we looked at the work that needs to be done to ensure that problematic projects are halted. Global efforts on to close dumpsites and landfills and expectations for COP 30 were also on the agenda.
Speakers: Donovan Storey (Climate and Clean Air Coalition), Ana Rocha (GAIA), Jonathan Crok (Carbon Market Watch), Dr. Amani Maalouf (Oxford University) and Victor Argentino (Instituto Polis)
3rd Quarterly (12 Mar 2025)
This meeting focused on CSO’s input to waste methane reduction and EJ in the NDC3.0 and the criteria for climate finance for zero waste.
Speakers: Mariel Villela (GAIA), Yasna Tapia (Alianza Basura Cero Chile), Dorothy Otieno (Center for Environmental Justice and Development, Kenya), Eskedar Ergete (Eco-justice, Ethiopia), Bella Nathania (Indonesian Center for Environmental Law), Shahriar Hossain (Environment and Social Development Organization, Bangladesh), and Yobel Putra (GAIA).
