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An intersessional expert group meeting is taking place in Bangkok, Thailand from 24 – 28 August 2024. Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ WCEL, and GRID-Arendal have developed legal briefs in English, French, and Portuguese for the AFRIPAC project to continue to build capacity of negotiators.

Dr. Karine Siegwart, Senior Advisor for the Centre on Policy and Law, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ and Dr. Alexandra Harrington, Chair of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ World Commission on Environmental Law Agreement on Plastic Pollution Task Force, ​are supporting intersessional work as legal experts to support the governments with which we are working in the AFRIPAC project. These are not negotiating nor decision-making meetings and are not part of an INC session.

We are grateful to the Government of São Tomé and Príncipe for the delegation invitation for our experts, and to the governments of São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea Bissau, Cabo Verde, Sierra Leone, and Senegal for their ongoing commitments to this project, the INC process, and in combatting plastic pollution. The support and cooperation among countries will be increasingly important at INC-5 in November, and during the upcoming implementation phase of the future treaty.

Expert Group 1 aims to "develop an analysis of potential sources, and means that could be mobilized, for implementation of the objectives of the instrument, including options for the establishment of a financial mechanism, alignment of financial flows, and catalysing finance, for the consideration by the Committee at INC-5." 

Expert Group 2 aims to "identify and analyse criteria and non criteria based approaches regarding plastic products and chemicals of concern in plastic products, and product design focusing on recyclability and reusability of plastic products, considering their uses and applications, for the consideration by the Committee at INC-5."

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ WCEL with our partners GRID-Arendal for the AFRIPAC project have produced four legal briefs for INC Intersessional work (date August 2024). 

• Legal Brief 1: Compilation Document Summary for the INC Intersessional work
• Legal Brief 2: Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ WCEL legal brief INC Intersessional Expert Group 1 Financing
• Legal Brief 3: Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ WCEL legal brief for the INC Intersessional Expert Group 2 Questionnaire Summary with an Executive Summary
• Legal Brief 4: Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ WCEL legal brief INC Intersessional Expert Group 2 Criteria and Non-Criteria Approaches
• These four briefs are also available as compiled documents in both French and in Portuguese.

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More Information:

• AFRIPAC: Effective plastic treaty capacity building: Africa and African SIDS
• Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ INC events and documents page
• Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ WCEL page

AFRIPAC is generously funded by Norad, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.