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GAIA’s NDC Checklist - Guidance on integrating waste and methane reduction

2 Nov 2024

(2) Respect for all waste pickers and waste workers: upholding and strengthening human rights, we must center equity and justice in all our actions, protecting the livelihoods of waste pickers and waste workers, and ensuring no harm in the first place. [...] Prepare and adopt a holistic plan that aims to reduce food loss and food waste within the frame of a wider transition to a sustainable food system which will ensure food safety and sovereignty;44 42 European Union (2008) Direcve 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Direcves hps://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELE. [...] - Ensure that the autonomy and aspirations of waste pickers, and their associations and cooperatives are accounted for while planning a just transition through a universal survey of waste pickers and social dialogue. [...] This could create a committee with representation of the different right holders to supervise the proper application of the EJ principles in the decision-making process and to interventions in the waste sector in a given context. [...] Set up feedback mechanisms and periodical reports to ensure that environmental harm and pollution are held accountable — this could take the form of a committee with representation of the different right holders to supervise the proper application of the EJ principles in the decision-making process and intervention in the waste sector in a given context.
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