Powering a Circular Future: Ethiopia’s Waste-to-Energy Vision and the Rephie Mode.

Her Excellency Engineer Lelise Neme, Ethiopian Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), Ethiopia

How to finance mitigation activities and how circular transformations will enable to fulfil the ambitions set in the Paris agreement.

Mr. Pär Larshans, Ragn-Sells Group

JCM for waste sector mitigation: WtE and semi-aerobic landfill.

Mr. Jiro Hiratsuka, Ministry of the Environment, Japan

Mitigation actions in the Waste sector in Uruguay. 

Ms. Andrea De Nigris Melgar, Ministry of Environment, Uruguay

Methane Reduction in Schools: An Educational Approach to Climate Change Mitigation. 

Dominican Republic

Nature-Powered Armenia: Circular Climate Solutions.

Armenia

National Productive Forests Program.

Brazil

Strengthening institutional and technical capacity in Türkiye's AFOLU sector for NDC implementation and the 2053 net-zero target.

Türkiye

Technology for obtaining and applying a soil improver based on biochar,
which has the effect of sequestration of greenhouse gases.

Russian Federation

Sustainable waste chains: mitigating GHG emissions through circular economy in Liberia. 

Liberia

Opening

• Welcome remarks
• Introduction to the sixth global dialogue by the co-chairs of the Sharm el-Sheikh mitigation ambition and implementation work programme

Scene-setting Session

Area of discussion 1: Best practices and solutions to address challenges and barriers to mitigation action in the waste sector, including through circular economy approaches.

• Scene-setting presentations
• Panel Discussion followed by Q&A session

The panel discussion will consider aspects related to best practices and solutions to address challenges and barriers to mitigation action in the waste sector, including, inter alia, through technical and policy approaches to reducing GHG emissions from the waste sector, including with a focus on circular economy strategies, while highlighting solutions across the waste hierarchy – from prevention and reuse to treatment and recovery among others. Panelists will also examine how circularity can contribute to lifecycle emissions reduction and improved resource efficiency.

Scene-setting Session

Area of discussion 2: Approaches to enable means of implementation for actions and solutions in
the waste sector, including through circular economy approaches.

• Scene-setting presentations
• Panel Discussion followed by Q&A session

This panel discussion will consider a range of approaches to enable means of implementation in the waste sector, with a view to advancing the solutions and actions discussed in the preceding segment. Discussions will address, inter alia, financing options—both public and private—including market-based and non-market-based mechanisms. The panel will also explore policy frameworks that foster enabling environments, such as institutional capacity-building, regulatory and fiscal incentives, and instruments to mobilize private sector participation. Cross-cutting themes, including emissions data and transparency, technology development and transfer, innovation, and capacity-building will be examined across all thematic areas of discussion in this panel.

Breakout Group 1 - Theme 1: Waste management, reduction, and prevention

1. What are the best practices and actionable solutions in your country or region to reduce GHGs emissions from waste, including through integrated and effective waste management systems for solid waste, organic waste, food loss, wood and agricultural residues, and wastewater?
    
2. What are the challenges and barriers in your country or region in implementing GHG emission reductions from waste management and waste management systems?

Breakout Group 2 - Theme 2: Circular economy approaches

1. What are the best practices and actionable solutions in your country or region to deploy circular economy approaches to avoid, shift, and improve resource use and waste generation, across different areas?
    
2. What are the challenges and barriers in your country or region to implementing circular economy approaches?

Breakout Group 1 - Theme 2: Circular economy approaches

1. What are the best practices and actionable solutions in your country or region to deploy circular economy approaches to avoid, shift, and improve resource use and waste generation, across different areas?
    
2. What are the challenges and barriers in your country or region to implementing circular economy approaches?

Breakout Group 2 - Theme 1: Waste management, reduction, and prevention

1. What are the best practices and actionable solutions in your country or region to reduce GHGs emissions from waste, including through integrated and effective waste management systems for solid waste, organic waste, food loss, wood and agricultural residues, and wastewater?
    
2. What are the challenges and barriers in your country or region in implementing GHG emission reductions from waste management and waste management systems?

Closing Session

Closing of Day 1 by co-chairs of the Sharm el-Sheikh Mitigation Ambition and Implementation Work Programme

Welcome by the co-chairs of the Sharm el-Sheikh Mitigation Ambition and Implementation Work
Programme

Breakout Group 1 - Theme 1: Finance, capacity, and technology

1. What are the best practices and actionable solutions in your country or region for financing models or approaches, technologies and capacities effectively supported the implementation of emissions reduction in the waste-sector and circular economy initiatives – including mechanisms such as public finance, blended finance, and efforts to incentivize markets for circular economy – and what specific approaches and strategies have proven successful in scaling up private sector investment in these areas? From your experience, what role have data, technology, or capacity-building efforts played – and what role can they play – in unlocking mitigation action in the waste sector and for circular economy approaches?
    
2. What are the challenges and barriers in your country or region in mobilizing and scaling public and private finance, technology deployment, or capacity-building activities for waste-sector implementation and circular economy approaches?

Breakout Group 2 - Theme 2: Circular economy approaches

1. What are the best practices and actionable solutions in your country or region for national policy and multilevel governance approaches to enable more effective mitigation action in the waste sector and stronger circular economy, including through successful examples of the engagement of regional and local governance actors and other stakeholders?
    
2. What are the challenges and barriers in your country or region to developing and implementing coherent and effective policy and governance frameworks for the waste sector and circular economy approaches?

Breakout Group 1 - Theme 2: Circular economy approaches

1. What are the best practices and actionable solutions in your country or region for national policy and multilevel governance approaches to enable more effective mitigation action in the waste sector and stronger circular economy, including through successful examples of the engagement of regional and local governance actors and other stakeholders?
    
2. What are the challenges and barriers in your country or region to developing and implementing coherent and effective policy and governance frameworks for the waste sector and circular economy approaches?

Breakout Group 2 - Theme 1: Finance, capacity, and technology

1. What are the best practices and actionable solutions in your country or region for financing models or approaches, technologies and capacities effectively supported the implementation of emissions reduction in the waste-sector and circular economy initiatives – including mechanisms such as public finance, blended finance, and efforts to incentivize markets for circular economy – and what specific approaches and strategies have proven successful in scaling up private sector investment in these areas? From your experience, what role have data, technology, or capacity-building efforts played – and what role can they play – in unlocking mitigation action in the waste sector and for circular economy approaches?
    
2. What are the challenges and barriers in your country or region in mobilizing and scaling public and private finance, technology deployment, or capacity-building activities for waste-sector implementation and circular economy approaches?