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2024-10-08 |
How (Not) to Make a Plastics Treaty - Update: A Basic Proposal to #BreakFreeFromBrackets On the way to the final round of negotiations towards the global plastics treaty, things are moving fast. And there's a major development on the road to Busan, something that could change everything. Ambassador Luis Vayas, the chair of the intergovernm... |
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2024-09-22 |
How (Not) to Make a Plastics Treaty - Part IV: Phantom of the Ottawa The final meeting to negotiate the global plastics treaty is coming up this winter. But if you’ve listened to previous episodes of our series, you know that little progress had been made in the first three INCs. At the negotiations in Uruguay, France, ... |
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2024-09-05 |
Fast Fashion, Single Use, Packaging: It's Plastic Overshoot Day 2024 September 5, 2024, is Plastic Overshoot Day. The world has been able to handle its plastic waste until this day, but the waste produced the rest of the year statistically ends up as pollution. Imagine the huge pile of plastic packaging and other stuff ... |
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2024-06-05 | Happy World Environment Day! We’ve got a treat for you. There’s a new podcast series which is really great – and we wanted to share it with you. It’s called Forever Chemicals, and it’s produced by Meg Carney and team at Black-Footed Ferret Productions.... |
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2024-06-02 |
#PlasticsTreaty Shorts: Burning plastics and chemical recycling with Sirine Rached Sirine Rached is the Global Plastics Policy Coordinator at GAIA, the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives. In her message, Sirine shares why she doesn’t believe in certain technologies that are currently promoted to solve the plastics crisis. ... |
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2024-05-04 |
#PlasticsTreaty Shorts: Report from INC-4 in Ottawa with Stephen Leahy The penultimate session to negotiate the global plastics treaty ended just a few days ago in Ottawa, Canada. One of the journalists attending was Stephen Leahy, a science and environmental journalist who’s reported on climate and other issues for the p... |
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2024-04-29 | It's Monday, April 29, 2024, and the INC4, the fourth round of negotiations for the plastics treaty, is in the final hours. Negotiators of countries from around the world are sitting in conference rooms in Ottawa, Canada, debating how to end plastic po... |
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2024-04-26 |
In Focus by The Hindu: Where does India stand in the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations? In this episode we focus on one of the biggest countries in Asia - India. India just passed its Plastic Overshoot day on April 23. India is the world's third largest contributor to plastic waste after China and the United States – but it also has a hug... |
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2024-04-20 | In March 2024, negotiators and experts came together in Bellagio, Italy, for an exclusive meeting to discuss an essential topic: Plastic money. And we’re not talking about credit cards here, but the actual money we people around the world are paying fo... |
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2024-03-23 |
How (Not) to Make a Plastics Treaty - Part III: Leave Bad Faith Behind What happened at the INC-3 in Kenya? Recap 3/3. “If a credible majority of states can come together and adopt global rules to prevent plastic pollution, they can also do the similar things on climate change, on biological diversity, and indeed also ot... |
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