Global waste and water crises are part of the same interconnected system, and commitments expected at this year's global climate summit must translate into concrete outcomes if those challenges are to be addressed, according to experts.
The United Nations COP31 climate summit will be co-hosted by Türkiye and Australia in the Mediterranean gem Antalya in November.
Lara van Druten, a member of the U.N. Zero Waste Advisory Board and chief executive of Netherlands-based Waste Transformers, said the fields of zero waste and water are deeply interconnected.
She noted that water systems are essential to production processes and that products ultimately become waste that returns to water systems as pollutants.
Reducing waste and pollution, she told Anadolu Agency (AA), would create more resilient water systems.
