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This Framework Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) can be downloaded and customised by operators of Small-Scale 3-Bay / Small Pile Composting Facility, receiving less than 100 kg (approximately two wheelbarrows) of organic material per week. The SOP can be customised to the local context, and used to guide the effective operation of a small facility, to ensure the efficient recycling of organic material into compost for soil enrichment. The SOP can be used by households, communities, and small-scale fruit and vegetable growers seeking to establish a compost site, using simple tools and manual labour.

This Framework Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) can be downloaded and customised by operators of medium sized Bay Compost Facilities, receiving 5-20 tonnes of organic material per week. The SOP can be customised to the local context, and used to guide the effective composting process, providing supervisors and staff the background and guidance on activities to operate and run a Bay Compost facility safely, effectively, and efficiently. The SOP is split into three sections: • Part 1 – Quick Guide • Part 2 – Stages of Composting • Part 3 – Appendix / Further Reading The SOP is designed to be customised with all areas in yellow designed to prompt an update and tailoring to the local situation.

This Framework Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) can be downloaded and customised by operators of medium sized Aerated Static Pile Compost Facilities, receiving 5-20 tonnes of organic material per week. The SOP can be customised to the local context, and used to guide the effective composting process, providing supervisors and staff the background and guidance on activities to operate and run a Aerated Static Pile Compost facility safely, effectively, and efficiently. The SOP is split into three sections: • Part 1 – Quick Guide • Part 2 – Stages of Composting • Part 3 – Appendix / Further Reading The SOP is designed to be customised with all areas in yellow designed to prompt an update and tailoring to the local situation.

Environment and social (E&S) sustainability through the protection of people and the environment from potential adverse impacts of Asian Development Bank (ADB) projects, is a cornerstone of ADB’s support for inclusive green economic growth and poverty reduction in Asia and the Pacific.

Despite a decade of global efforts to protect and restore biodiversity, not one of the 20 Aichi Biodiversity targets was fully achieved in 2020 deadline and biodiversity loss continues at an unprecedented rate. The convention on Biological Diversity's post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF) is the ambitious successor of the CBD's 2011-2020 Strategic Plan for Biodiversity. Development of the GBF and its associated monitoring and reporting framework is on-going, involving a comprehensive preparatory process.

Nature and biodiversity are being lost worldwide, and the capacity of ecosystems to provide vital contributions to people is deteriorating. Most of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets for 2020 under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have not been achieved, and, if the trends of the last decades persist, biodiversity will continue to decline. Policies, commitments and actions aimed at halting further loss immediately and restoring biodiversity and ecosystems are needed more than ever, in order to still be able to achieve the agreed 2050 Vision of the CBD of living in harmony with nature.

here are none more pressing issues of global sustainable significance than those relating to a country’s management of the disposal of its environmental pollutants including hazardous waste, radioactive materials and other chemicals.