Valuing the Sustainable Development Co-benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Actions: The Case of the Waste Sector and Recommendations for the Design of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs)

This analytical document suggests that while the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has been successful with mitigating the impacts of large-scale industrial projects, small-scale community-based projects, such as those in the waste management sector have been overlooked due to their low mitigation potential.
The document’s contents are based on discussions held at a side event ‘Quantifying and monetizing NAMA co-benefits,’ which took place on the margins of the Bonn Climate Change Conference on 7 June 2014.