Methods for measuring greenhouse gas emissions from sanitation and wastewater management systems

Daniel Ddiba; Mahboubeh Rahmati Abkenar; Carla Liera

doi:https://doi.org/10.51414/sei2024.030

Waste pipe or drainage polluting environment

Recovering resources from organic waste streams with the REVAMP tool

Feature / Explore your city or community's resource recovery potential of urban organic waste streams on the new web-based platform for SEI’s newly launched REVAMP tool.

19 November 2021 / About Business, Cities, Finance, Household energy, Innovation, Public policy, Renewables, Sanitation and Water resources

Consumption of single-use plastics such as surgical masks and disposable cups has shot up since the advent of Covid-19

Digging into plastic waste in Thailand

Media coverage / The problematic state of plastic systems has received a great deal of attention and is particularly challenging in Southeast Asia, creating a growing obstacle.

2 November 2021 / About Behaviour and choice

View of Fyris River in Storvad, near Uppsala, Sweden

Recycling nutrients and reducing carbon emissions in the Baltic Sea Region—Sustainable or economically infeasible?

Journal article / "Ecotechnologies" for recovering carbon and nutrients are costly. A so-called "bottom-up" approach can serve as a decision-making instrument.

20 September 2021 / About Food and agriculture and Water resources

A Caucasian woman (left) chatting with an Asian woman (right) over a laptop with a bookcase of plants behind them

How to make climate entrepreneurship work for climate action in Southeast Asia?

Perspective / How can we nurture climate entrepreneurship in technology and innovation for climate action?

22 September 2021 / About Finance

Rear view of man sitting on abandoned toilet in field

Technologies for recovery and reuse of plant nutrients from human excreta and domestic wastewater: a protocol for a systematic map and living evidence platform

Journal article / The authors present a systematic map and online evidence platform to achieve a more circular use of nutrients that goes beyond technological innovation.

28 August 2021 / About Food and agriculture and Sanitation

Male and female workers with protective face masks at landfill, Slovakia

Waste management in Bosnia and Herzegovina: a gender equality, social equity and poverty reduction lens

SEI brief / This discussion brief explains how waste management in Bosnia and Herzegovina is deeply intertwined with gender inequality and social inequity.

10 August 2021 / About Behaviour and choice, Cities, Participation, Public policy and Wellbeing

Sarajevo landfill, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Waste management systems should leave no one behind – the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Feature / The interlinkages between the waste management sector and social equity must be recognized and considered in waste policy.

7 September 2021 / About Participation and Wellbeing

Not a pretty picture, but an important step in waste water treatment. This step separates solid waste from water.

The Sanitation Gap in Climate Policy and Financing

Past event / This session explores how best to implement urban sanitation projects that maximize access through resilient, low-emission systems.

24 August 2021 / About Adaptation, Cities, Climate policy, Innovation, Mitigation, Public policy, Sanitation and Water resources

Plastic is illegal: what can replace common household items?

Media coverage / SEI Research Associate Eleni Michalopoulou featured on a Russian television news segment to discuss the new EU law to ban single-use plastics.

8 July 2021 / About Public policy and Sustainable Development Goals