A New International Treaty to End Plastic Pollution: From Ambition to Concrete Commitments, Meaningful Action and Effective Governance
Bauer, Fredric LU
and Deere Birkbeck, Carolyn
(2022)
- Abstract
- Early March 2022 saw the fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi, Kenya. The UNEA is the highest-level international decision-making body on the environment, gathering delegates from 175 UN member countries to set shared goals and coordinate policy on global environmental issues. In a remarkable achievement, governments agreed at UNEA on a resolution to launch negotiations on a legally binding international instrument on plastic pollution.
This blog post unpacks the what the resolution really means and key barriers that remain on the path to a legally binding global agreement.
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- author
- Bauer, Fredric
LU
and Deere Birkbeck, Carolyn
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022-03-04
- type
- Other contribution
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- plastic pollution, UNEA, environment
- categories
- Popular Science
- publisher
- The Global
- project
- Petrochemicals and Climate Change: Mapping Power Structures
- STEPS – Sustainable Plastics and Transition Pathways, Phase 2
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 7103183a-bdf4-45e0-abf6-fd4c354f3933
- alternative location
- https://theglobal.blog/2022/03/04/a-new-international-treaty-to-end-plastic-pollution-next-step-is-translating-an-ambitious-mandate-into-meaningful-action/
- date added to LUP
- 2022-03-15 15:38:42
- date last changed
- 2022-03-28 10:25:54
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abstract = {{Early March 2022 saw the fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi, Kenya. The UNEA is the highest-level international decision-making body on the environment, gathering delegates from 175 UN member countries to set shared goals and coordinate policy on global environmental issues. In a remarkable achievement, governments agreed at UNEA on a resolution to launch negotiations on a legally binding international instrument on plastic pollution.<br/><br/>This blog post unpacks the what the resolution really means and key barriers that remain on the path to a legally binding global agreement.}},
author = {{Bauer, Fredric and Deere Birkbeck, Carolyn}},
keywords = {{plastic pollution; UNEA; environment}},
language = {{eng}},
month = {{03}},
publisher = {{The Global}},
title = {{A New International Treaty to End Plastic Pollution: From Ambition to Concrete Commitments, Meaningful Action and Effective Governance}},
url = {{https://theglobal.blog/2022/03/04/a-new-international-treaty-to-end-plastic-pollution-next-step-is-translating-an-ambitious-mandate-into-meaningful-action/}},
year = {{2022}},
}