Monthly Asian Focus: A user friendly GHG calculation tool

Climate-change issues have been identified as a serious environmental consideration in policy agendas and also in the waste sector, greenhouse gas emissions have been recognised as an important environmental concern. This month, we hear from Nirmala Menikpura, a researcher in the Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Area at IGES who developed new simulation "GHG Calculator for Solid Waste Sector" which provides a simple spreadsheet model for calculating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and is now starting to be used in developing countries.