Climate adaptation and resilience building through sustainable waste and resource management
This short course introduces key considerations and approaches to climate change adaptation and urban resilience planning from the perspectives of sustainable waste and resource management. Sustainable waste and resource management is increasingly linked to climate and urban resilience building. Whereas the effects of climate change can exacerbate existing waste and resource management challenges, adaptation strategies in this sector can help advance social, environmental, and economic goals. Drawing on examples from developing countries, this course introduces how the design and operation of systems that sustainably manage wastes and resource streams promote resource efficiency, reduce burdens on public health systems and natural resource value chains, and improve resilience to certain impacts of climate change.
The kNOwWaste Knowledge Platform was developed through a Project Cooperation Agreement funding by UNEP on 2016. The platform provides data and information on holistic waste management to stakeholders in Asia and the Pacific region. The platform was developed with the following aims: generate and consolidate data or information on holistic waste management, transform data into easily comprehensible outputs for use by key stakeholders, map out and disseminate information on international waste management projects under the GPWM and UNEP projects as well as other international partners, and provide capacity building support through dissemination of data or information support for relevant stakeholders on holistic waste and waste management system.
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