The impact of waste on the phenomena of global warming is caused mainly by natural gas emissions released from the decomposition of the biodegradable portions in landfills. The potential contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gases of proper waste management is not limited to the impact of the final disposal, but also covers the entire integrated waste cycle. After a brief introduction by Dr. Eboli of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Professor Caserini of the Politecnico di Milano will discuss strategies for the recovery of materials and the energy use of waste as well as possible reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from this sector. These practices along with the replacement of goods with services, dematerialization, prevention, and developing processes of short supply chains, have enormous potential both to achieve environmental climate policies as well as to improve the efficiency of the economic system, with positive impacts on employment and economic development.

Event’s Timetable: 6th February 2013, h. 05:00 p.m.

Information: Admission free subject to availability. Working language: italian. For information: [email protected] or 041/2700443.

Happy hour to follow.

Speaker
Stefano Caserini
With a degree in Environmental Engineering, Caserini received his Ph.D. in Sanitary Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, where he has held Environmental Engineering courses, Environmental Monitoring and Pollution phenomena networks, and currently teaches Climate Change Mitigation.
He is the author of numerous scientific and popular publications. Edizioni Ambiente has published some of his books, such as Some Like It Hot, and The Guide to the legends of climate change. His most recent book, Learning from disasters, was published by Altraeconomia Edizioni. He is also founder and coordinator of the blog www.climalteranti.it.
Introduced by
Fabio Eboli
Fabio is part of the group of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) Climate Change and Sustainable Development Research (CCSD) Programme and he also belongs to the Climate Change Impacts and Policy (CIP) research team at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC). His main research field is the economic assessment of climate change impacts and policies by means of computable general equilibrium framework. His interests also cover the quantitative evaluation of sustainable development through composite indicators.
Fabio took part and is currently involved in several EU Commission’s Sixth and Seventh Framework Programme projects and is the team leader of the FEEM Sustainable Index project and has been recently appointed as the thematic coordinator of the European Climate Change Adaptation platform (Climate-Adapt).
As a lecturer, he is currently teaching “Economics” for undergraduates at Cà Foscari University in Venice and “Modelling impacts of climate change and adaptation strategies” at PhD Programme in Science and Management of Climate Change (jointly coordinated by Cà Foscari Venice University and CMCC).