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PROPOSED GLOBAL WASTE MANAGEMENT OUTLOOK
Supporting the implementation of Basel and Stockholm
Conventions: update on waste and WEEE initiatives by UNEP
IETC and SCRC/BCRCs
Ordinary and extraordinary meetings of the conferences of the parties
to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions
Geneva, 3 May 2013
by
Matthew GUBB, Director
International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC)
Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
“That there are already 3.5 billion people, or half the world’s
population, without access to waste management services has
been described as a new “planetary emergency””
David Newman, President, ISWA
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Outline
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Policy context
The Global Waste Management Outlook
Needs that GWMO will addressed
Proposed activities
Other details
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Policy context
Waste generation and composition
- Rapid increase in quantities of waste and diversity
- Per capita waste generation rates, in many developing
countries, are over one kilogram per day mark
- Additional three billion middle-class consumers by 2030 implications for future waste generation
- Global generation levels of MSW - 1.3 billion tons per year
(2.2 billion tons per year by 2025)
- Annual costs of dealing with the waste - $205.4 billion in
2010 $375.5 billion in 2025
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Policy context
Impact of lack/improper waste management
• Soil and water contamination caused by leachate and air
pollution from burning of waste
• Poor collection leading to the spread of vector-borne
diseases.
• Health consequences for workers, communities and the
environment.
• Loss of valuable resources and the
further depletion of virgin materials.
• Methane emissions from landfills:
11% of the estimated global
anthropogenic methane emission for
2010.
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Policy context
The waste sector has great potential to be organized in a
way that is more economically, environmentally and
socially sustainable.
Proper waste management can:
• facilitate the recovery and reuse of
valuable resources;
• generate “green economic growth”;
• support climate change mitigation
objectives;
• ease pressure on non-renewable
sources of energy through
conversion of waste to energy
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Policy context
Developing countries face challenges to implement sound
waste management due to:
• insufficient revenue from waste management activities
available to cover expenditures.
• policies for waste management exist but are not effectively
implemented and coordination among responsible entities is
lacking.
• awareness of the challenges and opportunities in waste
management is often low
• significant lack of data and analysis to guide policy
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Policy context
Mandates
The UNEP Governing Council, in its decision GC 27/12 on
Chemicals and Waste Management has requested UNEP
“to develop a global outlook of challenges, trends and
policies in relation to waste prevention, minimization and
management, taking into account the materials life cycle,
subject to the availability of extra-budgetary resources and
in consultation with Governments and stakeholders,
building on available data, best practices and success
stories, taking into account the Global Chemicals Outlook
and any other relevant initiatives and taking care not to
duplicate existing information, to provide guidance for
national policy planning.”
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Global Waste Management Outlook
UNEP-IETC and ISWA - Development of the
Global Waste Management Outlook to focus on
• information on the deployment and effectiveness of policy
instruments
• identifying waste management gaps and needs requiring
attention
• better information on resource allocations
• assist in prioritizing needs for greater support
• forging of a new international cooperation
mechanism among key data providers and
analysts in the field of waste management.
• raising the profile of and complementing
existing
initiatives
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Needs that GWMO will address
The Outlook would help
• decision makers to access a concise analysis of the
economic, social and environmental policy context of waste
management
• funding organizations in assessing requests for support
• developing countries to prepare project proposals
Audience
• primary audience - those in a position to develop and
deploy policy instruments, allocate funding and facilitate
effective waste management
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Proposed activities
Phase I: Preparation (Months 1-3)
• Preparatory consultations
• Initiation of the steering committee
• Initiation of the stakeholder group
Phase II: Development (Months 4-20)
• Development of indicators and benchmarks
• Research and writing
• Steering committee meetings
• Stakeholder consultations
Phase III: Dissemination and forward planning (Months 21-24)
• Launch of the first edition of the Outlook and further
dissemination
• Planning for the second edition of the Outlook
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Added value of the project
The Outlook would
• fill a gap in current international waste management efforts
• provide policymakers with an accessible and authoritative
source of information, analysis, policy recommendations and
lessons learned
• utilize the convening power
of the United Nations to
gather inputs from leading
experts from multiple
stakeholder groups
• complement the work
previously done in gathering
data
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Other details
Cooperation
• UNEP IETC in collaboration with ISWA
• Steering committee by core group of partners - guidance
and quality assurance
• Group of stakeholders as information contributors and
commentators on draft chapters of the outlook
Budget
• The total project budget is approximately USD 550,000
spread over two years.
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“Lets drive changes”
International Environmental
Technology Centre
2-110 Ryokuchi Koen,
Tsurumi-ku, Osaka
538-0036, Japan
Tel : +81 (0) 6 6915 4581
Fax : +81 (0) 6 6915 0304
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.unep.org/ietc
Thank You…