Author
Kait Siegel
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Experience Exchange: Learning from India’s waste management success
Over the past 20 years, India has taken important steps to strengthen its solid waste management systems, from policy changes to improved technical and implementation support at the national, state, and local level. This month, as part of the WasteMAP initiative, CATF’s methane pollution prevention team traveled there with representatives…
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Four countries have effectively reduced their waste methane emissions through policy action. Here’s what they have in common.
The waste sector, encompassing both solid waste and wastewater, is responsible for roughly 20% of global methane emissions.
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Waste Clinics: A practical approach to identify challenges and solutions for solid waste management
Waste Clinics were conceived as a tool for identifying their most pressing challenges and finding potential solutions.
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A guide to monitoring and quantifying methane emissions from the waste sector
The waste sector is responsible for roughly 20% of anthropogenic methane emissions.
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A New Partnership: Tackling methane emissions from waste in Naucalpan de Juarez, Mexico
Recently, CATF’s experts visited Naucalpan de Juárez (Naucalpan), Mexico to meet with local officials, learn about the progress they’re making on sustainable waste management, and understand how they plan to implement waste methane mitigation best practices at the municipality’s landfill.
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A call to action: The international community must scale support for methane mitigation
Despite broad agreement on the importance of fast action to mitigate methane, the international community has been slow in delivering the needed financial and capacity support.
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How our trash contributes to climate change — and what we can do about it
The climate impacts of our trash are becoming harder to ignore.
