Circular GHG Mitigation Opportunities Lao PDR: A Metabolic Approach

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Shifting Paradigms, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

By moving towards a circular economy, Laos is pursuing both the objective of reducing global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while securing the growth that will which allow the country to build up its material ‘stock’ of produced goods to meet societal needs, such as shelter, nutrition, mobility, healthcare and education.

This report supports the next update of Laos's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) by deploying circular economy interventions. The latest NDC update was submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in March 2021. The country's most recent NDC aims to reach net-carbon neutrality by 2050.

The report examines how supplementing the NDC with 17 circular economy GHG mitigation and sequestration interventions can contribute to achieving or, even, raising that ambition. It also presents the business cases supporting these interventions for the private sector in Laos.

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