Untangled: The plastics treaty’s critical role in tackling fishing gear
‘Ghost gear’ is fishing gear which has been abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded at sea and is widely regarded as one of the most harmful forms of plastic marine debris.
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From Paper to Practice: Translating environmental principles into operational measures in the global plastics treaty
This briefing looks at the potential application of three outlined principles. It provides recommendations for how they could be taken beyond simply references in preambular paragraphs and effectively guide both the process of developing a treaty and the enduring implementation and compliance of an instrument truly capable of ending plastic pollution.
EIA podcast – as talks for a Global Plastics Treaty continue, what about the Big Oil lobby?
The UN Environment Assembly is in the process of negotiating a new Global Plastics Treaty, with the second phase of talks kicking off at the end of May to hammer out the details needed to properly address the fast-rising threat of plastics pollution
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Global Plastics Treaty: Initial Considerations for INC-2
In this briefing we provide some key considerations for negotiators going into INC-2 and reflections on the Options for Elements paper.
Global Plastics Treaty: Initial Considerations for INC-1
In this briefing we provide some key considerations for negotiators going into INC-1 (previous briefing in this series can be found here).
Initial Considerations for Plastics Treaty INC – Briefing
Initial Considerations for the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on the UNEA Resolution 5/14 to End Plastic Pollution: Towards a Legally Binding Global Instrument.