Coal – Oil – Gas – Waste

Recommendations for the UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil

Dipl.-Ing.(TU) Werner P. Bauer

At the UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil, thousands of international climate activists protested for climate justice and the rights of indigenous communities. Around 50,000 people gathered at the ‘March for Climate’ in Belém to demand climate justice and the preservation of the rainforest as the lungs of the Earth and a habitat for indigenous communities. 

With reference to the words of the Greek philosopher Epictetus, born around 50 AD: ‘The path to happiness consists in not worrying about anything that lies beyond our control.’
Being hopeful that the final document will be positive and will align with the climate targets set out in the Paris Agreement, the WasteCulture Community sends the following four (4) recommendations to COP30:

1. Up to 50 % of the 1.5 degree target can be achieved with a holistic waste culture. 
   Meaning: reduce reuse re … whatever is possible, and being aware that the remaining waste is treated strictly in accordance with the waste hierarchy, which only allows landfill after treatment (material and thermal recovery)
   
   
2. It is vital to support President Mukhtar Babayev from Cop 29 with his Declaration on Reducing Methane from Organic Waste (Annex 7).
   Meaning: Even if the delegates cannot agree, it is possible to start reducing methane emissions by optimising waste management.
   
   
3. Ensure your circular economy activities are based on the two pillars of residual waste management:
   
   • Do not accept illegal dumping, whether on streets, nor in water, or on dumps.
   • Reduce emissions from sanitary landfills.
   Meaning: Including of course, not burning waste in open fires!
   
   
4. National authorities shall collect and recover all plastic that consumers cannot avoid. 
   Meaning: Not the national or local Mayor and his ministers shall collect, but they are responsible for a good organization – not the people

"Se Deus quiser.”
Representing WasteCulture 
VP GWC

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