Briefing 1 of 10: Key Elements for a Plastic Pollution Treaty, including key messages for negotiators.
In 2022, the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) created the Plastic Pollution Task Force to provide insights and support to the Treaty negotiation process. The following series of ten targeted legal briefs are part of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Submission for the third Intergovernmental Negotiating…
The third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-3), is scheduled to take place from 13 to 19 November 2023 at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Headquarters in…
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Key messages for the twenty-eighth session of the Council (Part II) and the Assembly of the International Seabed Authority (ISA),ÌýKingston, Jamaica.
Council: 10 - 21 July Assembly: 24 - 28 July 2023Ìý
The body responsible for the protection of Antarctica’s precious life, The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), has just completed a special meeting in Santiago, Chile. Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ participated as an observer promoting independent science and urging delegates…
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, celebrates the adoption by consensus of the High Seas Biodiversity Treaty*,Ìý19 June, New York UN, byÌýall United Nations member states, and looks to what needs to happen next for momentum to be maintained.…
A summary of the key entry points within existing UNFCCC processes and negotiations where managementÌýactions concerning coastal and marine ecosystems can play a productive role in climate action.ÌýReport recommendations focus primarily on opportunities for advancing coastal Nature-based Solutions…
To address the threat that plastic poses to our ocean, climate, economies, and health, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have called for an ambitious UN Treaty, which acts across the whole plastics lifecycle, during their meeting at the Second Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating…
There are many steps in the process of advancing from opening negotiations to concluding a final treaty and, for this reason, the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ World Commission on Environmental Law has issued the following brief outline for the legal process of treaty negotiations.
This is a one-page overview of the AFRIPAC project:ÌýEffective Capacity Building for Global Plastics Treaty in Africa. This project is in partnership with GRID-Arendal and is generously supported by NORAD.