Civil society calls for shift on climate financing for waste methane reduction and inclusion of environmental justice in NDC 3.0
Date: November 15, 2024 Time: 13.00 – 13.30 PM Baku
Venue: Media Center (Zone D) Live Streaming @ We Don’t Have Time
Since its launch at COP26 and now with 156 signatory countries, the Global Methane Pledge has driven an increasing momentum of opportunity to advance mitigation and adaptation in the waste sector, which contributes up to 20% of anthropogenic methane emissions. Many national governments are realizing the enormous potential of tackling waste methane emissions, resulting from organic waste in landfills and dumpsites. However, despite this, the waste sector is severely underfunded. What is worse, 94% of climate finance for methane reduction goes to burning of waste instead of upstream zero waste solutions that offer the greatest mitigation potential as well as a wide range of co-benefits for people and the planet.
For the Global Methane Pledge to succeed, climate finance in the waste sector needs to increase and radically shift from waste disposal towards scaling up and replicating already successful, community-led zero waste initiatives, in alignment with the Environmental Justice Principles for Fast Action on Waste and Methane. Civil society contribution and local community action, though often overlooked, is critical to ensure successful implementation of the Global Methane Pledge and the upcoming review of NDCs.
Join the Global Alliance for Incinerators Alternatives for a press conference on how community-centered zero waste systems, policies, and practices contribute to fast action on methane reduction in the waste sector while ensuring just transition and integration of waste pickers and other impacted communities; and know why they need to be in this conversation. Key stories we bring to COP29:
- In Nigeria, civil society opposes a planned incinerator project funded with 120M Euros from the Dutch government, a waste disposal technology that is a disaster for climate and environmental justice. Speaker: Dr Leslie Adogame, Executive Director, Sustainable Research for Action and Development (SRADev), Nigeria
- Waste pickers are the real climate heroes and the de facto recycling system in the Global South. Speaker:Soledad Mella, President, National Association of Recyclers of Chile (ANARCH),
- This year, the Zero Waste Cities Network Philippines was launched with 16 local government officials committing to include waste methane reduction in their climate action plans. Globally, 46 cities have signed the Cities Methane Pledge committing to recover 70% of organic waste by 2030. Speaker: Hon Benedict Lagman, Vice Mayor, City of San Fernando, Pampanga Philippines and President, Zero Waste Cities Network Philippines
- In Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, the groundbreaking zero waste initiative led by Nipe Fagio is demonstrating the potential of environmental justice to reduce methane and create jobs. Speaker: Ana Rocha, Global Plastics Policy Director, GAIA and Executive Director, Nipe Fagio
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Media Contact: Sonia Astudillo, Global Climate Communications Officer, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) I sonia@no-burn.org I +63 917 5969286
About GAIA | GAIA is a network of grassroots groups as well as national and regional alliances representing more than 1000 organizations from 92 countries whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without incineration. www.no-burn.org