The Global Plastics Treaty was mandated by the United Nations in 2022 and is currently under negotiation. The goal of the treaty is a legally binding agreement that will help countries reduce and ultimately eliminate plastic pollution across the entire life cycle. The Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty is a voluntary international body of over 400 independent scientists with expertise on the harms plastic pollution causes to human health, society, economies, and the environment.
The Scientists’ Coalition has been providing global plastics treaty negotiators with synthesised and summarised robust scientific evidence to support fully informed decision-making.
International and national leaders and thought leaders will discuss novel solutions to global ocean plastics and implementation of SDG14 in two moderated panels focussing on “Increasing ocean-related scientific cooperation, knowledge, capacity building, marine technology and education to strengthen the science-policy interface for ocean health”: 1) strengthening global criteria and standards for plastics; and 2) strengthening evidence based decision-making.
In collaboration with registering organisation Sorbonne University and our organising partners, we invite you to join scientists, plastics experts, and policy-makers for two ‘fireside chats’ about how we can reduce, and ultimately eliminate, plastics pollution:
At the event, our organising partners, sponsors, and panellists will announce the following new commitment to the Voluntary Ocean Commitments Database: “We commit to evidence-based decision making to protect ocean health and sustainability including in the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations and its implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and in the implementation of innovative responses to SDG14”.
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