Climate Finance for the Waste Management Sector
The waste management sector is in a unique position to move from being a comparatively minor source of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to becoming a major contributor to climate change mitigation. This briefing aims at providing criteria to policy-makers around climate finance on the field of waste. It provides a framework to understand what are the more climate-friendly options in the field and a series of case studies to illustrate some of the best and the worst practices in the field.
Amongst the global institutions committed to provide climate finance to mitigate and adapt to climate change, the Green Climate Fund plays a fundamental role. The Fund’s mandate to “promote the paradigm shift towards low-emission and climate-resilient development pathways” should be read with the highest ambition to deliver mitigation and adaptation effectively.
Such effective climate responses greatly depends on the GCF’s capacity to identify the best climate solutions, ensuring GHG emission reductions, but also contributing to sustainable development and addressing the needs of the most impacted people by climate change in developing countries. Such guidance needs to be provided on a sectoral approach basis.
The waste management sector is in a unique position to move from being a comparatively minor source of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to becoming a major contributor to climate change mitigation. This briefing aims at providing criteria to policy-makers around climate finance on the field of waste. It provides a framework to understand what are the more climate-friendly options in the field and a series of case studies to illustrate some of the best and the worst practices in the field.
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