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Speaking Panel: “Carbon pricing – how to achieve a level playing field for landfill and Waste-to-Energy”

26.02.2025

 An ESWET event organised as part of the Energy from Waste Conference in London.

 

  • 6 March 2025

Why waste to energy should stay above landfill in the waste hierarchy, and a level playing field should be maintained in the ETS

  • Satellite data confirming relevance of GHG emissions from landfills for climate change
  • Landfill regulation and pricing are necessary to reduce methane emissions
  • Residual waste treatment in WtE+X plants is crucial to mitigate climate change

Panelists:

Siegfried ScholzPresident, ESWET
Anja SchwetjeSenior Scientific Officer, UBA, German Environment Agency
Fynn Hauschke, Policy Officer Circular Economy and Waste, European Environmental Bureau
Jacob Hayler, Executive Director, Environmental Services Association

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