Conference: Waste and Climate Change
Hosted by London Remade
Supported by the Mayor of London, the London
Development Agency, London Councils, Defra and the Chartered
Institution of Wastes Management
Thursday 31 January & Friday 1st February 2008
Royal Institute of British Architects
66 Portland Place, London, W1
Programme - English - French - Spanish
Submitted papers not presented at the conference can be downloaded below (see end of page).
Proceedings
DAY 1 - Thursday 31 January 2008
- Welcome (PDF 1.4KB) - Jean-Pierre Hannequart (President, ACR+, Belgium)
- Welcome (PDF 700KB) - Daniel Silverstone (Chief Executive, London Remade, UK)
Session 1: the impact of waste management on climate change
- Keynote speech: the role of waste in creating a sustainable world city - Shirley Rodrigues (Head of Environment, Greater London Authority, UK)
- Tackling climate change: renewable gases and liquid fuels from waste (PDF 7 MB) - Allan Jones MBE (Chief Executive, London Climate Change Agency, UK)
Session 2: life-cycle analysis and other methods of impact assessment
- Introduction - Steve Lee (Chief Executive, CIWM, UK)
- Municipal waste outlook: better waste management to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (PDF 400 KB) - Mette Skovgaard (European Topic Centre on Resource and Waste Management, Denmark)
- Decision making tools: life cycle analysis, cost benefits analysis and social impact assessment (PDF 4 MB) - Alessandro Mengozzi (Researcher, University of Bologna, Italy)
Session 3: energy balance of waste prevention and reuse
- Introduction (PDF 1MB) - Francis Radermaker (Scientific Director, ACR+, Belgium)
- Using carbon balance to measure CO2 emissions from products and waste (PDF 200 KB) - Rémi Guillet (Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development and Planning, France)
- Measuring the carbon benefits of remanufacture and reuse (PDF 5 MB) - David Parker (Centre for Remanufacturing and Reuse, UK)
Session 4: energy balance of recycling
- Environmental benefits of recycling: review of life cycle comparisons for key materials in the UK recycling sector (PDF 4.2 MB) - Keith James (Environmental Policy Manager, WRAP, UK)
- The waste sector's contribution to climate protection in Germany (PDF 500 KB) - Susanne Hempen (Federal Ministry of the Environment, Germany)
- Energy balance of recycling: paper and plastics (PDF 1 MB) - Claude Vanderputten (Centre for Sustainable Development, Belgium)
DAY 2 - Friday 1 February 2008
- Keynote speech - Councillor Merrick Cockell (Chairman, London Councils, UK)
- Waste, climate change and sustainable development - Peter Head (Director, Arup, UK)
Session 5: energy balance of organic and residual waste management
- The environmental balance of anaerobic digestion of organic waste in the Brussels Region (PDF 2.1 MB) - Michael Ooms (Director, RDC Environment, Belgium)
- Greenhouse gas balances of residual waste management scenarios (PDF 1.5 MB) - Adam Baddeley (Senior Consultant, Eunomia, UK)
- Greenhouse gas balances of residual waste management scenarios (PDF 4 MB) - Wayne Hubbard (Strategy Manager - Waste, Greater London Authority, UK)
Session 6: energy balance of waste collection and transport
- A comparison of greenhouse gas emissions from centralised and household treatment of food waste (PDF 100 KB) - Dr Alan Knipe (Environmental Consultant, UK)
- Assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from solid waste collections (PDF 5 MB) - Thuy Nguyen, Civil Engineering Dept, University of New Brunswick, Canada)
- Closing speech - Jean-Pierre Hannequart (President, ACR+, Belgium) - Available soon
Submitted papers not presented at the conference (compiled per topic):