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Interdisciplinary understanding is vital for delivering sound climate policy advice. However, navigating the ever-growing and increasingly diverse scholarly literature on climate change is challenging for any individual researcher. This annual synthesis highlights and explains recent advances across a variety of fields of climate change research.

Using a comparative approach, the study reviews trends in waste dumping across 12 South American countries, alongside a historical and regulatory analysis of Germany’s transformation.

Our Crowd Sourcing Campaign is supported by the global WtERT network, represented by seventeen organizations from thirteen countries.

The 2018 bi-Annual EEC/WTERT conference was held this year at The City College of New York hosted by The Earth Engineering Center at City College (EEC|CCNY). The conference brought together the best minds in academia, industry, and government representing 12 countries across five continents to discuss important current topics in waste.

WtERT-Colombia organized the 2^nd panamerican Waste-to-Energy-Conference in Medellin, Colombia in the past year and was part of some other important events and fairs in the Country. Further, WtERT -Colombia made technical visits to the "La Pradera" Landfill as well as to Central Sopesa- San Andrés (WTE plant), to name only a few activities of 2018.

The 1st Latin American WtERT Council Meeting takes place during the 2nd Panamerican Waste to Energy Conference from June 6.-8. 2018 in Medellin.

The world today committed to a pollution-free planet at the close of the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, with resolutions and pledges promising to improve the lives of billions across the globe by cleaning up our air, land and water.

Prof. Nickolas Themelis, Chair of Global WtERT Council, was keynote speaker at COPIMERA 2017 InterAmerican Congress of engineers from several Latin America countries (Medellin, Colombia, October 19-20). At the inaugural meeting of the new WtERT-Colombia organization (see www.wtert.org), Sr. Hugo Ospina Cano, President of the Engineering Society of Antiochia Region presented the plan and organizational structure of WtERT-Colombia.

Global warming is associated with adverse effects on biodiversity, human survival and development and the earth environment. It is therefore necessary to reduce the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions that are associated with climate change. Among various methods to slow down greenhouse effect, waste management can play a key role, directly or indirectly.

Waste-to-energy (WTE) is the environmentally preferred method of managing postrecycling wastes. In this process, municipal solid waste is combusted under controlled conditions to generate steam and electricity. Waste is by nature heterogeneous and has a substantially high concentration of chlorine (0.47-0.72 wt%) as compared to coal fuel. During combustion, chlorine forms several products, hydrogen chloride and metal chlorides, which can accelerate the high temperature corrosion of boiler surfaces, especially superheater tubes. This corrosion has been shown to significantly impact plant efficiency and profitability, causing unplanned shutdowns or preemptively forcing operators to limit steam temperatures.This work focuses on the role of chlorine compounds on boiler tube corrosion and investigates approaches for minimizing its effects.

There is a need to promote collaboration between the governments of Europe and the LAC region for capacity building and training in all matters related to technologies for the integrated and sustainable management of municipal waste.

Presented to the 2023 WtERT World Congress Hangzhou, China, 06.11.2023 - 08.11.2023

Increasing population levels, differences between acquisition levels and living standard accelerates the generation rate of MSW. MSWM has to face not only technical problem but also the interaction between different factors as known, political, economical, socio-cultural, environmental and available resources.

Curtigran Ltda is situated in the metropolitan district of Bogota. Faced with increasing environmental legislation, waste water treatment problems, and decreasing productivity and product quality, the company saw eco-efficiency as a strategy which could ensure its survival.

This Case Study provides information on an eco-efficiency project carried out at Furima, a 26 employees iron foundry in Columbia. As a result of the project the particle emissions were reduced about tenfold.