Mitigation of global greenhouse gas emissions from waste: Conclusions and strategies from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report. Working Group III (Mitigation)

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-32

  Bogner, Jean ^a,b   Pipatti, Riitta ^a   Hashimoto, Seiji ^a   Diaz, Cristobal ^a   Mareckova, Katarina ^a   Diaz, Luis ^a   Kjeldsen, Peter ^a   Monni, Suvi ^a   Faaij, Andre ^a   Qingxian, Gao ^a   Tianzhu, Zhang ^a   Mohammed, Abdelrafie Ahmed ^a   Sutamihardja, R T M ^a   Gregory, Robert ^a  

^a Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change Unit for Greenhouse Gas Inventories   (France)

^b Landfills + Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Emissions; Global warming; Greenhouse gas; Incineration; IPCC; Landfill; Methane; Nitrous oxide; Waste; Waste water; Wmr 1315 2

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND FILL; RECYCLING; WASTE INCINERATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTEWATER;

REDUCED WASTE GENERATION; WASTE MINIMIZATION;

GAS EMISSIONS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE;

GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND FILL; RECYCLING; WASTE INCINERATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTEWATER;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; EMISSION CONTROL; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; CARBON BALANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPOSTING; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ENERGY BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GOVERNMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; INCINERATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LANDFILL; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; NITROGEN BALANCE; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECYCLING; STANDARDIZATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VALIDATION STUDY; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE MINIMIZATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GASES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INCINERATION; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE; REFUSE DISPOSAL; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 39649105427     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X07088433     Document Type: Article

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