The Waste Climate Action Data Tool (WasCAD) supports and facilitates countries to systematically assess the impact of climate actions in the waste sector. It does this by streamlining all aspects of the data collection process, offering standard methodologies, calculations and reporting in one place, while enabling users to create, edit, and delete greenhouse gas inventories, assign activity data to relevant institutions, and assess emission sources. WasCAD also guides users, making it more straightforward to connect actions and policies with outcomes and costs, facilitating the design and tracking of nationally determined contributions (NDCs), and providing a more consistent and structured approach to data collection and assessment.
WasCAD provides countries with the following main functionalities:
The software is open source and free to use.
Licensing considerations:
The use of the Software and code is subject to an Open Source licence, with the following conditions:
Without limiting other conditions in the License, the grant of rights under the License will not include, and the License does not grant to you, the right to sell the Software and/or use the Arising Intellectual Property for profit and/or commercial purposes.
For purposes of the foregoing, “Sell” means practising any or all of the rights granted to you under the License to provide to third parties, for a fee or other consideration (including without limitation fees for hosting or consulting/ support services related to the Software), a product or service whose value derives, entirely or substantially, from the functionality of the Software. Any Licence notice or attribution required by the Licence must also include this Commons Clause License Condition notice.
Software: WasCAD
Licence: Affero GPL
Licensor: UNOPS (Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT))
More in the ICAT toolbox:
If you are interested in systematic assessment of climate actions in the transport sector, explore the Transport Climate Action Data Tool (TraCAD).
