ISLANDS Webinar - Tackling Plastics in SIDS (Pacific Region)

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Clara Mottura
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ISLANDS Webinar - Tackling Plastics in SIDS (Pacific Region)

5 APR 2022
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Organization:
Green Growth Knowledge Partnership(GGKP)
Global Environment Facility(GEF)
the United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP)
International Union for Conservation of Nature(IUCN)

On 5 April 2022 (11:00 - 12:30 FJT, 01:00 – 02:30 CEST), ISLANDS is hosting webinar to share experiences in tackling plastics and discuss joining the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment. 

Under the GEF funded Implementing Sustainable Low and Non-Chemical Development in Small Island Developing States (ISLANDS) Programme, this webinar will serve as a formal invitation for SIDS to become signatories to the Global Commitment. The Global Commitment provides an established voluntary framework for stakeholders to develop and report on actions and progress related to plastic pollution. SIDS face unique challenges around plastic waste management. Solutions and lessons learned from signatories can provide SIDS with important insights across key progress areas

The webinar will facilitate knowledge exchange by highlighting existing solutions to turn the tide on plastics in SIDS. It will also serve as an opportunity to showcase how ISLANDS will facilitate SIDS-SIDS learning through the Green Forum – a new collaboration space for stakeholders in the green economy. Webinar participants are invited to join the ISLANDS Plastics Community, which will facilitate ongoing dialogue on plastics management.

The webinar is being co-hosted by GEF ISLANDS, UNEP and the IUCN.

 

Speakers and Agenda (FJT)

11:00-11:10 Welcoming Remarks
  Speaker:  Melanie Ashton, GEF ISLANDS
11:10-11:20 New Plastics Economy Global Commitment on Plastic
  Speaker: Llorenç Milà i Canals, Head of the Secretariat - Life Cycle Initiative, UNEP
11:20-11:30 Reflections on being a Signatory to the Global Commitment – New Zealand
  Speaker: Liz Butcher, Senior Policy Analyst, Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand
11:30-11:50 Q and A Session
11:50-12:00 Circular solutions: Examples of effective, quantifiable solutions to addressing plastic leakage as part of a systems approach to addressing plastic pollution
  Speaker: João Sousa, Senior Programme Officer of Marine Plastics, Global Marine and Polar Programme at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
12:00-12:20 Round-table discussion
 

Possible discussion questions:

  1. What are the activities/issues that SIDS find most difficult in addressing plastic pollution?
  2. What support or information would help SIDS to join the GC – if they wanted to?
  3. What do we expect from the plastics treaty INC process?
12:20-12:30 Closing Remarks

 

 

 
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