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Thematic Cities Cluster

Waste Management, Green Cities & Renewable Energy

The Cities Cluster on Waste Management, Green Cities, and Renewable Energy offers a space for knowledge sharing and collaboration between cities partners of the Global South on how to ensure effective waste management through universal collection and safe treatment, building greener cities, and promoting renewable energy such as biomass. Concerns about waste management are looming larger in developing countries that have not developed adequate waste management policies or systems, trash collection services, or government institutions to effectively manage their wastes. Innovative waste management strategies can be an effective way to address complex urban issues including rising greenhouse gas emissions, unsanitary public spaces, growing energy demand, and limited space, and achieve cleanliness and environmental sustainability. Enabled by treatment technologies, wastes can be converted to energies, including electricity, heat, fuel, and other usable materials.
Kickoff Workshop for the pilot project – Waste Wise Koidu
For instance, in Southeast Asia alone, the total quantity of the waste-to-energy capacity from landfill biogas plants and incineration plants accounts for over 323 MW, and this number is expected to double by 2022; by 2030, the realizable generation potential from renewable municipal waste in six Southeast Asian countries will amount to 17.26 TWh (Maw Maw Tun, et al, 2020). Over the past years, the Cities Project has organized and facilitated exchanges on waste management between cities and organizations to invite partners to share their good practices, experiences and lessons, as well as their challenges in waste management. In 2021, the Cities Project launched a pilot project titled “Waste Wise Koidu” in Koidu, Sierra Leone in cooperation with UN-Habitat, which aims to improve local capacity in waste management. In 2022, under the framework of the same pilot project, the Cities Project has witnessed the signing of SoI between Koidu and Kushtia, Bangladesh, and the constant improvement of local partners’ capacity in waste management.

During the process of facilitating exchanges and pilot projects, the Cities Project has perceived substantial needs for developing cities in improving their waste management. Therefore, the Cities Project will continue facilitating the exchanges and knowledge transfer between city partners and organizations and hopes to broker more partnerships between partners.

The Cities Project welcomes city partners interested in participating in this Cities Cluster on Waste Management, Green City and Renewable Energy and hopes the knowledge exchanged here leads to more South-South cooperation and a swift post-pandemic social and economic recovery.

Capacity development workshop held under the pilot project – Waste Wise Koidu

Featured Members of this Cluster

Afadzato South District, Ghana
Baguio, the Philippines
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cities Alliance, UNOPS
Harar, Ethiopia
Harare, Zimbabwe
IGES Centre Collaborating with UNEP on Environmental Technologies (CCET)
International Network on Small Hydro Power (INSHP)
Izmir, Turkey
Janjanbureh, the Gambia
Koidu, Sierra Leone
Mersin, Turkey
Nanjing, China
São Paulo, Brazil
Santiago, Chile
UN-Habitat
Tandil, Argentina
PICA, Palestine
Waste Warriors Society, India
Shah Alam, Malaysia
Mubmwa, Zambia
Gansu Provincial People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (GPAFFC), China
Qutoof Professional Development, Jordan
Lezha, Albania
Afadzato South District, Ghana

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