Isabella Montgomery

With growing recognition of the significant relationship between sanitation and methane emissions, sanitation partners are calling for the scaling of existing solutions such as CBS – an approach that not only offers diverse avenues for methane mitigation but also stands resilient in the face of climate change challenges. Sanitation is Read more…

Ahead of the Global Methane Forum, the Climate Resilient Sanitation Coalition and the Water Initiative for Net Zero draw attention to the lack of sanitation in climate discussions, highlighting key barriers for action, and the measures that should be taken to address them.

SOIL has announced its groundbreaking partnership with IDB Lab’s Outcomes for Change Fund (OCF) in Haiti – the first large-scale Outcomes Fund to be implemented in a fragile country context and small island developing state.

Thanks to the collective efforts of WASH partners, the importance of climate-resilient sanitation has been recognised in high-level efforts to address the climate crisis, with an explicit mention in the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) water thematic target.

CBSA and its members featured prominently throughout this conference where we had numerous interesting and thought-provoking discussions. Read about the three key issues that gave us pause for thought.

The climate crisis demands urgent action across all sectors to reduce emissions and adapt to changing climatic conditions and sanitation is no exception. While there are no quick fixes, emerging research shows that actively managed services such as container-based sanitation benefit both adaptation and mitigation and should have the potential to secure valuable – and so far, elusive – sources of climate finance.

Are you heading to the 1st IWA NSS conference? Join us in an array of sessions throughout the conference to learn and discuss container based sanitation.

Reflections and key messages from a ‘Flush with Success’, a roundtable co-hosted by Cranfield School of Management, Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor and the CBSA looking at how small and medium-sized social enterprises (SMSE) can help to meet enormous global sanitation challenges.

In 2022, the CBSA worked with the carbon finance consultancy South Pole on a feasibility study to understand whether carbon credits could become a viable income stream for sanitation providers and help to reduce the funding gap. Our new briefing paper summarises the study’s findings, which found that carbon credits can generate revenue for actively managed sanitation but that several obstacles hinder the full potential.