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Aligning the Global Plastics Treaty with <1.5

This study aims to model scenarios for how the global economy might respond to the proposed “40x40” target in the context of negotiations for a new International Legally Binding Instrument (ILBI) to end plastic pollution.

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On Borrowed Time

Illegal fishing of protected totoaba fish in Mexico’s Gulf of California and their subsequent trafficking and retail as part of transnational organised crime are responsible for the rapid decline of vaquitas, the world’s most endangered marine mammal.

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Clean-Ups or Clean-Washing?

This report from the Environmental Investigation Agency and OceanCare highlights major concerns around quick-fix technological solutions to cleaning up plastics in our oceans, ranging from their impact on the environment to the distraction from genuine policy solutions. The report provides recommendations to policymakers negotiating the new global plastics treaty for how to ensure that clean-up are conducted in a way that puts people and planet first. First and foremost the report highlights that we cannot do the clean-up without stopping the source.