Gajanana Hegde

Gajanana Hegde leads the regulatory development (energy) team to develop standards to measure the outcomes of climate actions within the sustainable development mechanism (SDM) program of the UNFCCC Secretariat in Bonn. He has over two decades of professional experience in climate change, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and waste management. He has contributed to the development of over one hundred methodologies applied in several thousand projects and programs hosted in over one hundred countries under the Clean Development Mechanism.

Naresh Giri

Mr. Naresh Giri is a Senior Project Officer for urban development at ADB’s Water and Urban Development Sector Office. He plays a leading role in implementing ADB’s Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project in Nepal after the 2015 earthquake. He has a blend of experience: at the field level as a municipal planner and at the policy level as a former UNDP officer. Prior to joining ADB in 2015, Naresh supported the implementation of the Building Code and Risk Sensitive Land Use Plan in Nepal.

Matthew Barrie

Matthew is the former founder & CEO of Solu. He launched Solu in 2018 in Manila, Philippines, and led the company to its acquisition 14 months later in May 2019. He grew the company from an idea in a notebook to 22 people and 4 integrated tech products with the overarching ambition to fundamentally improve the way that waste is managed in developing nations. He was named a UN Young Environmental Changemaker for my work and as a company, we won multiple awards including the ASEAN Impact Challenge.

Greening Industry: Improving Resource Use, Reducing Waste

Growing volumes of waste are not matched with equal recovery and treatment capacity, especially in developing countries, making waste as one of today’s major global concerns. This session examines how a range of industries address resource use and efficiency and showcases some successful examples of market acceleration approaches to advance green technology and waste-related businesses.

Karachi (Pakistan) Waste-to-Fuel Potential

Following the fundamentals of waste-to-fuel technologies and the experience of the Republic of Korea, this presentation concentrates on the Karachi case study. As the largest and most populous city of Pakistan, Karachi generates a multitude of waste that primarily end up in canals, the river, and the Arabian Sea. There is a huge opportunity to address the waste issues of Karachi by segregating the waste and converting it into biogas, which could then be used as fuel for public transportation.