Showing continued worldwide acceptance of waste-to-energy as a means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a waste-to-energy project in Ivory Coast (Africa) is the latest municipal waste project approved to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).  The Abidjan Municipal Waste-to-Energy Project, which is the first CDM project located in a member state of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), will collect and treat 200,000 tons of urban waste per year using anaerobic digesters, and the resulting biogas will be used to produce electricity, while residual waste will be transformed into compost.  This project, which has received the approval of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of more than 71,000 tons of CO₂ per year.