OECD PUTS WASTE SECTOR AT HEART OF ‘AFFORDABLE’ ANTI-CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGIES
March 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) has put the waste sector at the heart of an 'affordable' strategy to prevent potentially disastrous environmental and economic problems caused by climate change.
Under current government policies worldwide, global greenhouse gases may grow 37% by 2030, and 52% by 2050, warned the OECD's 2008 Environmental Outlook report. However, it claims that the global economy need only adopt policies costing 1% of GDP to cut key air pollutants by about 33% and limit greenhouse gas emissions ...
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