As part of its climate change strategy, Senegal has almost always prioritized GHG inventories in its national communications, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). To meet its commitments, Senegal has already prepared and submitted three communications, the last of which was in 2015.
This aim of this study is to design an appropriate methodology for existing sanitation systems dominated by on-site facilities to conduct a quality inventory of the sub-sector’s GHG emissions, along with an impact assessment in order to design adequate adaptation measures that will enhance the resilience of sanitation services to the effects of climate change.
The findings will help better direct national planning and investments to: achieve low-carbon growth; identify and guide actions to be taken to mitigate GHG emissions from the sector; facilitate the implementation and application of regulatory instruments in favour of low-carbon activities and technologies; and facilitate access to the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement financing mechanisms.