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	IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007

Climate Change 2007: Working Group III: Mitigation of Climate Change

Chapter 10: Waste management

10.2 Status of the waste management sector

10.2.3 Development trends for waste and wastewater

10.4 Mitigation of post-consumer emissions from waste

10.4.1 Waste management and GHG-mitigation technologies

10.4.2 CH4 management at landfills

10.4.3 Incineration and other thermal processes for waste-to-energy

10.4.4 Biological treatment including composting, anaerobic digestion, and MBT (Mechanical Biological Treatment)

10.4.5 Waste reduction, re-use and recycling

10.4.6 Wastewater and sludge treatment

10.4.7 Waste management and mitigation costs and potentials

10.4.8 Fluorinated gases: end-of-life issues, data and trends in the waste sector

10.4.9 Air quality issues: NMVOCs and combustion emissions

10.5 Policies and measures: waste management and climate

10.5.1 Reducing landfill CH4 emissions

10.5.2 Incineration and other thermal processes for waste-to-energy

10.5.3 Waste minimization, re-use and recycling

10.5.4 Policies and measures on fluorinated gases

10.5.5 Clean Development Mechanism/Joint Implementation

10.5.6 Non-climate policies affecting GHG emissions from waste

10.5.7 Co-benefits of GHG mitigation policies

10.6 Long-term considerations and sustainable development

10.6.1 Municipal solid waste management

10.6.3 Adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development in the waste sector

REFERENCES

Coordinating Lead Authors:

Jean Bogner (USA)

Lead Authors:

Mohammed Abdelrafie Ahmed (Sudan), Cristobal Diaz (Cuba), Andre Faaij (The Netherlands), Qingxian Gao (China),

Seiji Hashimoto (Japan), Katarina Mareckova (Slovakia), Riitta Pipatti (Finland), Tianzhu Zhang (China)

Contributing Authors:

Luis Diaz (USA), Peter Kjeldsen (Denmark), Suvi Monni (Finland)

Review Editors:

Robert Gregory (UK), R.T.M. Sutamihardja (Indonesia)

This chapter should be cited as:

Bogner, J., M. Abdelrafie Ahmed, C. Diaz, A. Faaij, Q. Gao, S. Hashimoto, K. Mareckova, R. Pipatti, T. Zhang, Waste Management, In Climate Change 2007: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [B. Metz, O.R. Davidson, P.R. Bosch, R. Dave, L.A. Meyer (eds)], Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.