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Side Event to the Ninth Meeting of the Conference
of Parties to the Basel Convention. - Bali,
Indonesia, 24 June 2008 -
Argentina's National Assessment of Waste -
Climate - Energy Linkages and Opportunities
Under secretariat of Control and
Fiscalization Secretariat of Environment and
Sustainable Development Alberto Santos
Capra Hazardous Waste Director
Secretariat of Environment and Sustainable
Development (SADS) of Argentina
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Argentina's background and Achievements

• Basel Convention
• - Argentine Constitution art. 41( Environmental
  Clause) 1994- National Law 23.922 (Ratification
  of the Basel Convention) 1992
• National Law 24.051 (Hazardous Waste Regime)
  1991
• National Decree 181 (Import Ban of Hazardous
  Waste) 1992- National Decree 831 (Hazardous
  Waste Law Regulatory Decree) 1993- Criminal Code
  - Civil Code
• Creation of the Transboundary Movement of
  Hazardous Waste Unit 1996
• Improvement of Hazardous Waste regulations on
  transboundary movements.
• Preparation of statistics reports about
  manipulation and movements of hazardous wastes
  information comes from National Registers of
  Generators, Manipulation, Transporters,
  Exporters, Treatment and Disposal facilities of
  hazardous wastes.
• Enforcement of hazardous wastes legal framework
• Creation a Hazardous Waste Direction 2007

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Argentina's background and Achievements

• UNFCCC
• - National Law 24.295 Ratified UNFCCC 1994
• - Law 25.438 Ratifies the Kyoto Protocol 2001
• - Decree 822 Establishes Clean Development
  Mechanism 1998
• - Mechanism (Clean Development Mechanism)
  Argentina Office 1998
• - Decree 2213 Establishes Designated National
  Authority SADS 2002
• - Resolution SADS 825 Establishes the approval
  procedure of CDM projects 2004
• - Decree 1070 Creates Argentine Carbon Fund 2005

• The Climate Change Office was created in 2007,
  and is dedicated to
• Propose and develop national policies on Climate
  Change
• Coordinate actions related to climate change
  information, adaptation, mitigation,
  international negotiation, education and training
  on climate change
• Coordinate the elaboration of the National
  Communications
• Identify priority areas to implement mitigation
  and adaptation activities
• Promote education and public awareness on
  climate change
• Evaluate, and if it is the case, approve CDM
  projects developed in Argentina

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Waste - Climate Energy
Key Provisions UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol Third and
Fourth Assessments Report of IPCC UNEP/CHW.8/INF/1
2 Bali Action Plan
Key Provisions Basel Convention Reference
Decision VIII/34 Paragraph 5 UNEP/CHW/OEWG/6/INF/2
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Linkages
By working on the Environmental Sound Management
of Wastes and the Clean Development
Mechanism/Joint Implementation and Carbon
Trading, countries are able to comply both
conventions, assuring a better use of the energy
production and use, avoiding at the same time
climate change consequences
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Argentina has developed a National Assessment on
waste - climate energy Strategic Topics

• Improving minimization, recycling and reuse of
  wastes
• Enhancing energy recovery from wastes
  -cogeneration of oils-, fulfilling national
  goals, by increasing energy supply trough an
  environmental sound management of these
  materials, and avoiding the use fossil fuel.
  Collect methane emissions from landfills
• Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, specially
  methane in landfills, by separating organic
  compounds in the domestic wastes to control
  anaerobic decomposition
• Securing new sources of carbon finance from de
  global market, foreign investment and technology
  transfer
• Minimizing the transportation for recycling or
  disposal wastes

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Clean Development Mechanism Projects in Argentina

• Landfill gas extraction and recovery in Villa
  Dominico, Buenos Aires province

• Antonio Moran Wind Power Plant Project in
  Patagonia Region

• Landfill gas recovery at the Norte III Landfill
  in Buenos Aires province

• Olavarría Landfill Gas Recovery Project in
  Buenos Aires province

• González Catán and Ensenada Landfill Gas Project
  in Buenos Aires province

• Landfill Gas Use Puente Gallego, Rosario, Santa
  Fe province

Argentina starts working to highlight and
implement the main linkages between BC and UNFCCC
as regards wastes management - energy use -
climate change in these projects
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Project Case for achieving wastes, climate and
energy objectives Matanza Riachuelo Basin
South America
Autonomous Buenos Aires City
Buenos Aires povince
Buenos Aires province
- Population 7.500.000 approximately - Solid
Waste Generated per Year 3.200.000 Tons - 1.000
important establishments and facilities
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Objectives of the Project

• To highlight the importance of the waste sector
  for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
• Involve in the process pre-consumer (energy,
  industry, building, transportation) and
  post-consumer sectors (waste management)
• Gaining a comprehensive view of the potential
  contribution that environmental sound management
  of wastes can play in achievement climate and
  energy objectives
• Cooperate with international organizations
  addressing waste management, climate change and
  energy-relate issues
• Interest partners in business and civil society

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• As a country, we are upon an unique opportunity
  to articulate
• key provisions of Basel Convention and UNFCCC
• applying for an economic growing and foreign
  investment
• trough implementing alternatives of energy
  generation
• and having technology transfer

demonstrating linkages through effective
actions, in a concrete example of sustainable
development
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Thank you for your kind attention!
Lic. Alberto Santos Capra
Hazardous Waste Director
Under Secretariat of Control and
Fiscalization Secretariat of Environment and
Sustainable Development Argentina
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Development