Sida’s biodiversity-related support 2020

Solid waste management plays a decisive role in tackling the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Poorly managed waste drives emissions, degrades ecosystems, creates significant health risks and disproportionately affects vulnerable communities. By advancing circular, low‑pollution waste systems, development cooperation can accelerate climate action, protect nature, improve public health and support a just green transition that benefits all.

This brief introduces early warning and anticipatory action as tools for protecting lives, livelihoods, and assets before disasters strike. In line with the current Governmental Aid Policy Framework, the Swedish Government has directed Sida to use development finance for anticipatory action as a means of making climate aid more effective. The brief serves as a resource for Sida staff, bringing together collective experiences in development-funded early warning and anticipatory action to date, and aims to inspire future investments in protecting people against preventable disasters. It complements an existing humanitarian brief on anticipatory action.