A new report by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) provides the clearest and most comprehensive evidence to date of how better waste management is critical to the climate fight. All thewhile building resilience, creating jobs, and promoting thriving local economies.
The introduction of ‘zero waste’ systems in cities around the world would be one of the quickest and most affordable ways to reduce global heating and stay below 1.5°C of warming, as per a new report released by GAIA.
The ‘Zero Waste to Zero Emissions: How Reducing Waste is a Climate Game Changer’ reportis published ahead of the November COP27 climate change discussions in Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt). The latest will have waste as one of its key topics. According to the report, introducing better waste management policies such as waste separation, recycling, and composting could cut total emissions from the waste sector by more than 1.4 billion tonnes. This is equivalent to the annual emissions of 300 million cars, much more than taking all cars off the road in the European Union for a year.
GAIA’s zero waste report underscores the multiple climate and related benefits of reducing and eliminating waste, with an important emphasis on organic waste and methane. Zero waste represents an essential element of sustainability.
Ken Alex Director, Project Climate at the UC Berkeley Center for Law, Energy, and Environment
“This report demonstrates the huge importance of aligning our waste systems with climate goals. It shows how cities are already working to eliminate GHG emissions from waste while building climate resilience and creating livelihoods. The report highlights the absolute necessity of reducing root sources of waste through changing our production and consumption patterns – using all the tools at our disposal to achieve the deep emissions reductions we need.”
Janez PotočnikCo-Chair of the International Resource Panel of the UN Environment Programme; former European Commissioner for the Environment
They did it again! Through an extremely comprehensive and in-depth report, GAIA tells the world why zero waste solutions with the inclusion of grassroots communities and organised waste pickers are the way to change our current polluted world. Let’s read this carefully– it is a weapon for change!
Lucia FernándezWaste-pickers Global Coordinator, WIEGO Institute of Urban Studies and Territory; Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism Universidad de la República, Uruguay
GAIA’s zero waste report underscores the multiple climate and related benefits of reducing and eliminating waste, with an important emphasis on organic waste and methane. Zero waste represents an essential element of sustainability.
Ken Alex Director, Project Climate at the UC Berkeley Center for Law, Energy, and Environment
“This report demonstrates the huge importance of aligning our waste systems with climate goals. It shows how cities are already working to eliminate GHG emissions from waste while building climate resilience and creating livelihoods. The report highlights the absolute necessity of reducing root sources of waste through changing our production and consumption patterns – using all the tools at our disposal to achieve the deep emissions reductions we need.”
Janez PotočnikCo-Chair of the International Resource Panel of the UN Environment Programme; former European Commissioner for the Environment
They did it again! Through an extremely comprehensive and in-depth report, GAIA tells the world why zero waste solutions with the inclusion of grassroots communities and organised waste pickers are the way to change our current polluted world. Let’s read this carefully– it is a weapon for change!
Lucia FernándezWaste-pickers Global Coordinator, WIEGO Institute of Urban Studies and Territory; Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism Universidad de la República, Uruguay
GAIA’s zero waste report underscores the multiple climate and related benefits of reducing and eliminating waste, with an important emphasis on organic waste and methane. Zero waste represents an essential element of sustainability.
Ken Alex Director, Project Climate at the UC Berkeley Center for Law, Energy, and Environment
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