This Implementation Lab at COP27 addressed proven solutions to improve waste management practices that will reduce emissions from the sector and lead to cleaner, more sustainable cities: organic waste diversion, open waste burning prevention and resource recovery.

Key Action Points from the discussion:

1. Waste should be appropriately included in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and national and local climate change and environment pollution programmes.

2. There is real opportunity to achieve the 2030 ambitions by working on reducing and valorizing organic waste, and in particularly, by tackling global food loss and waste, which account for a significant proportion of organic waste. Improving the management of organic waste will also lead to significant methane and black carbon reductions, impacting climate change and human health.

3. The 18th session of the African Ministerial Conference on Environment AMCEN) this year agreed on the decision “Towards phasing out open burning of waste in Africa” in which AMCEN member States, and all the relevant stakeholders are encouraged to join the Global Waste Initiative 50 by 2050 UNFCCC COP-27 Presidency as well as the multi-stakeholder partnership to eliminate open burning of waste in Africa by 2050.

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