Ministry of the Environment: Mitigation Instruments and Measures for the Waste Sector

MMA: Mitigation Instruments and Measures for the Waste Sector

Between 2023 and 2024, ImplementaSur supported Chile’s Ministry of the Environment and its Undersecretariat in developing technical proposals for the Health Sector Mitigation Plan, as part of the implementation of the Framework Law on Climate Change.

Our advisory work focused on defining mitigation measures, enabling actions, and public policy instruments to reduce emissions in the waste sector, based on a territorial approach and aligned with international standards. The goal was to develop ambitious, context-sensitive strategies to drive concrete climate action.

Service We designed policy measures and tools to integrate the waste sector into Chile’s national climate agenda.

Year 2023-2024

Approach and project implementation

We evaluated the abatement potential and associated costs of eight mitigation measures, including:

Household composting
School-based composting
Large-scale composting
Anaerobic digestion
Landfill biogas capture
Paper and cardboard recycling
Food waste reduction

We proposed over 20 MRV indicators, enabling public instruments, an implementation timeline, multisectoral working groups, and specific indicators to monitor gender gaps.

We also developed technical data sheets, causal chains, barrier analyses, and a reference international benchmark. The entire effort was aimed at turning climate targets into viable, traceable actions for the public sector.

8 mitigation measures proposed

6.2 MtCO₂eq by 2030 and 75.0 MtCO₂eq by 2050

21 prioritized MRV indicators

15 indicators for enabling actions

21 indicators on gender and waste

Proposed enabling instruments and multisectoral governance

Strategic Vision

This project reflects ImplementaSur’s role as a technical partner to the public sector in the development of ambitious, technically sound climate policy instruments that are grounded in territorial realities.

Our approach combines quantitative analysis, governance design, gender integration, and sectoral expertise to help strengthen the State’s capacity to move toward a low-carbon economy.

This advisory work provided concrete inputs for climate planning in the waste sector, a key area for reducing methane emissions and meeting international commitments like the Global Methane Pledge and Chile’s long-term climate strategy.