ASEAN Member States (AMS) encourage to adopt sustainable agricultural practices that preserve soil health and enhance long-term food security. Comprising a comprehensive strategy for AMS, the ASEAN Guidelines on Crop Burning Reduction can serve as a guidance document for sustainable agricultural practices that offer a clear path forward for achieving a carbon neutral future.The ASEAN Guidelines em...

Rapid economic progress in Viet Nam has been accompanied by a huge increase in consumption and, as a result, waste – particularly plastic waste. It is estimated that Viet Nam’s post-consumer plastic waste will rise by 36% from 2018 levels by the year 2030.1 Despite major commitments from the government, business and civil society, plastic waste leakage into the country’s water bodies is expected t...

This Handbook is for organizations who are currently working with, or plan to work with, women entrepreneurs to produce or support the design of household energy technologies, or who will engage women as sales agents or entrepreneurs in rural or urban locations to market, distribute, and/or provide after-sales service of household energy technologies. The Empowered Entrepreneur Training Handbook p...

The Best Practices for Solid Waste Management: A Guide for Decision-Makers in Developing Countries (Guide) is focused on best practices for solid waste management in medium and large urban centers in developing countries (generally referred to as “cities” in the Guide), because they face the most substantial solid waste management challenges.Given their waste generation projections, these challeng...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released the report Gender and waste nexus: Experiences from Bhutan, Mongolia and Nepal, co-authored by GRID-Arendal, at the 8th ISWA World Congress in Bilbao, Spain. The Gender and waste nexus report provides a detailed analysis of the gendered nature of the waste sector in these countries.The report is one of the products of the Waste and Climate C...

How to finance the 2030 Agenda at the country level has emerged as a key issue since world leaders adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015. Governments’ abilities to mobilize, sequence and make effective use of a wide variety of both financing sources and financing instruments and strategies will be central to their ability to achieve the ambitious new sustainable develo...

The Wastewise Cities (WaCT) Data Portal is the data portal for UN-Habitat’s Waste Wise Cities initiative: it gathers standardized municipal solid waste (MSW) data from cities that have used the Waste Wise Cities Tool (WaCT). Specifically, it reports on quantities of waste generated, collected, and — crucially — how much of that waste is managed in controlled facilities (a key part of the SDG 11.6....

Open-burning of municipal solid waste (MSW) is a major source of PM emissions in developing world cities, but few studies have characterized this phenomenon at the city and intra-city (neighborhood) scale relevant to human health impacts. This paper develops a consistent field method for measuring the spatial frequency of the incidence of MSW-burning and presents results in three neighborhoods of ...

Clean Cooking Alliance’s User Insights Lab (UIL) is unlocking the sector’s growth by helping clean cooking organizations tackle critical market challenges that must be addressed to achieve universal access and sustained use. The UIL combines the latest thinking in consumer insights, behavioral sciences, and design to support enterprises, non-profits, and governments that need to deliver more value...

Clean, efficient, affordable, and reliable technologies and fuels are fundamental to building a global market for clean cooking solutions. Consistent testing methods and reporting metrics, as defined by international standards, help consumers and suppliers alike navigate this market.With standardized protocols, established regional testing and knowledge centers can evaluate and communicate how sto...