The main theme of the Congress "East meets Waste" reflected the challenges and opportunities in Asian countries as they strive for sustainable waste management. With growing globalization and urbanization, good waste management and leadership are critical. Governments, corporations and industries need to work together for sustainable waste solutions to address the current and anticipated waste cha...
Landfill methane capture and use is good for the global environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and in many cases can be good for business, too. More than 1,100 landfill methane energy projects are operating around the world, and there are thousands more opportunities that have not yet been exploited. This workshop provided the basics of landfill methane energy project ...
The dairy sector is currently facing important challenges, such as climate change, evolving economic policies, enhanced global competition, technological innovations, and many others. Organizers of the summit encouraged submissions of papers related to environmental issues to participate in the poster portion of the event.
COP-14 was a crucial step on the way to determining the post-2012 international climate regime as well as providing a common understanding of the financial and technical tools that are the essential for the global fight of climate change in both rich and developing countries. Methane to Markets had its first ever side event session on December 12th from 6-7:30 p.m., which was bein...
On December 4th and 5th, the Methane to Markets Partnership held a Landfill Operations Workshop in Cancún, México. The Workshop was hosted by EPA's Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP), in collaboration with the Secretaria de Desarrollo Urbano y Medio Ambiente del Estado de Quintana Roo (SEDUMA) and the Dirección de Ecología del Municipio de Ben...
The 2nd Annual China Coal Summit 2008 was aimed at promoting the upgrade of traditional coal industry, accelerating integrated utilization, forming a new stable, environmentally friendly, and economically providing system of resources, as well as building a new international platform to communicate. The event allowed attendees to share coal industry information and analyze global coal production.<...
