香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播

External event 23 Apr, 2024

Fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution (INC-4)

The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to听develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-4), is scheduled to take place from 23 to 29 April 2024 at the Shaw Center in Ottawa, Canada.听The session will be preceded by regional consultations on 21 April 2024.听

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At this fourth session, delegates will shift gears in the negotiation process as the INC will consider a (RZD) 鈥 representing a nearly complete set of provisions and multiple options for each textual element. This text will form the core of the negotiations, and 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 will continue its efforts to include biodiversity-specific language and terms in the future treaty, emphasizing the need for convergence, coherence and complementarity between different multilateral environmental agreements, including the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the High Seas Treaty, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, and the Sustainable Development Goals.听

香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 has been contributing to the discussions framing the adoption of the future Plastics Treaty, putting forward legal briefs specifically developed for the INC sessions, and the wealth of experience vested in the different constituents of the Union 鈥 from a legal, science, technical and policy standpoint.听 听

Key messages听

  • Embedding nature and people as allies, as well as circular economy solutions听in the treaty听will be a critical step towards achieving the GBF, the SDGs, the commitments of the High Seas Treaty, and meeting the goals of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. So far, the Revised Zero Draft does not address the critical intersections between plastics pollution, circular economy solutions, trade and the related impacts on biodiversity.听
  • 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 advocates for听the inclusion of a specific article on 鈥淏iodiversity aspects鈥 in Part II.8ter of the International Legally Binding Instrument (ILBI), following the Part II.8bis of the Revised Zero Draft, which currently addresses 鈥淗ealth aspects.鈥 The proposed article would:听
    • Facilitate the coordination of obligations under existing Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) to reflect the trend of incorporating biodiversity and the alignment with the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) Targets.
    • Ensure that the legal and scientific connections between plastic pollution, circular economy, and innovations across all phases of the plastic lifecycle and the protection of biodiversity are rooted in international law and in the national laws that implement the respective commitments.听
    • Advance the interlinkages between plastic pollution and biodiversity in the context of international trade law.听
  • While references听to the connections between plastic pollution, circular economy solutions, and biodiversity鈥痑nd ecosystems鈥痯rotections are commonly found in preambular text of treaty instruments, 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 asserts that the protection and restoration of biodiversity, and nature鈥痯er se,鈥痬ust be incorporated in the legally binding control measures and enforcement terms of the ILBI.
  • 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 underlines the need for听governments and companies to prepare comprehensive and inclusive nature strategies that link to concrete short- and long-term national action plans, and emphasises the importance of knowledge sharing, technology transfer, and collaboration across regions.听In this regard, 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 stresses the imperative of the full and effective participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities, women and girls, whose equality is a fundamental prerequisite for sustainable development, must be empowered and included to achieve our environmental, social, and economic goals of a just transition and a circular economy. 听

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