'Reality kicks in': What just happened at talks to create a 'Paris deal for plastics'?

Plastics pollution is a very visible, global environmental and health challenge, and last year the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) launched a process to draft a global treaty aimed at solving the problem.


Earlier this week, delegations from all over the world met in Nairobi to work on the first full draft of a treaty that could set binding rules that would affect the production, use and disposal of plastics.


To get a readout of what happened there, and what might happen next, we hear from Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership, a multistakeholder group looking at solutions to the plastics issue, under the auspices of the World Economic Forum.
Guests and links:

Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership (https://www.globalplasticaction.org/ghana)


Bethanie Carney-Almroth, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty (https://ikhapp.org/scientistscoalition/)


Kristian Syberg, Roskilde University and Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty (https://ikhapp.org/scientistscoalition/)


Eline Leising, Regional Program Manager, Enviu (https://enviu.org/)


Jodie Roussell (https://www.nestle.com/stories/brands-crafty-packaging-changes) , Global Public Affairs Lead - Packaging & Sustainability Nestlé


João Ribeiro-Bidaoui, Global Affairs Special Envoy, The Ocean Cleanup (https://theoceancleanup.com/)


Le Ngọc Tuan, delegate to INC-3 from Ministry of Environment of Viet Nam
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