United Nations efforts to advance a global treaty on plastic pollution echo past multilateral agreements that tackled ozone layer depletion and acid rain.
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A global treaty on plastic pollution must incentivize a take-make-reuse waste management system and include quantitative targets based on geography-specific emissions.
Without action in the next five years, an extra 80 million tonnes of plastic may end up in the ocean by 2040.
Global plastics production is set to double by 2040. The upcoming UN meeting is a chance for New Zealand to stake a stronger position on a proposed treaty to reign in plastic pollution.
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CSIRO
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Professor of Ocean Policy and Economy, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Ending Plastic Waste Mission Director, CSIRO
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Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
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Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland