Composting projects under the Clean Development Mechanism: Sustainable contribution to mitigate climate change

Waste Management

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 138-146

  Rogger, Cyrill ^a   Beaurain, Francois ^b   Schmidt, Tobias S ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b South Pole Carbon Asset Management Ltd   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDM PROJECTS; CLASS PROJECTS; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; COMPOSTING PROJECT; KYOTO PROTOCOL; MITIGATION OPTIONS; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; PROJECT NUMBER;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY POLICY; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

WASTE TREATMENT;

BIOGAS;

CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPOSTING; DEVELOPING WORLD; EMISSION CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GAS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPOSTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOUSEHOLD; LANDFILL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR ENERGY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WIND;

AIR POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOIL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78149359109     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2010.09.007     Document Type: Article

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