(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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Table of Contents
- Guidance on integrating waste 1
- Introduction zero waste and climate change 2
- NDCs revision a critical opportunity to take action 2
- Guidance on integrating waste and methane reduction into NDCs 2
- The Environmental Justice Principles for Fast Action on Waste and Methane 2
- NDC Checklist at a glance 2
- NDC Checklist specific recommendations 2
- 1. Ensure alignment with the priorities set out on the waste hierarchy 2
- 2. Protect the livelihoods of waste pickers and waste workers to deliver just transition 2
- 3. Include local organizations and communities in the decision-making process 2
- 4. Include mechanisms for compliance and accountability to do no harm 2
- 5. Design climate interventions within a multidimensional framework 2
- References 2
- 1 3 2
- 1 6 2
- 1 8 2
- Introduction zero waste and climate change 3
- NDCs revision a critical opportunity to take action 4
- The Environmental Justice Principles for Fast Action on Waste and Methane 5
- Guidance on integrating waste and methane reduction into NDCs 5
- NDC Checklist at a glance 6
- NDC Checklist specific recommendations 7
- References 22
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