Starkes Signal für #Meeresschutz ! 🌊 Europaparlament hat Ratifizierung des UN-Hochseeschutzabkommens #BBNJ durch EU zugestimmt – mit überwältigender Mehrheit „Das ist ein wichtiger Schritt auf dem Weg, 30 Prozent der Weltmeere bis 2030 zu schützen.“ Bundesministerin SteffiLemke

Lessons from history: plastics grew in part, but NOT WHOLLY based on functionality or performance. Plastics bloomed through govt/war contracts, nat'l (public) $$$, tech transfer, tax subsidies, loans, marketing, lobbying & more. #inc2 #plasticstreaty U.S. Department of State | Science Diplomacy USA Source below

'Die The Scientists' Coalition fordert ein wirksames Ziel für die Minderung der Produktion von Primärplastik. Erst wenn sie um >3% jährlich sänke, würde die Menge laut der Initiative von über 350 Wissenschaftlern tatsächlich abnehmen.'
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Astonishing marine life cycles. Many seabed creatures start life in the plankton. This late-stage planktonic crab larva, called a megalopa, is about to leave the plankton to begin its adult life on the seabed. (You can see the remnants of the zoea's dorsal spine.)
ZEISS Microscopy

5% of global emissions are from producing new #plastics , with 75% of these emissions occurring before the plastic polymer is made, making clear the impact of the full value chain approach on emissions' -Berkeley Lab ETA's Nihan Karali #PlasticsTreaty
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„Unsere Natur und Meere ersticken im Müll. Ich bin zuversichtlich, dass uns mit diesem UN-Abkommen gegen #Plastikmüll ein Meilenstein gelingt, um die weltweite Vermüllungskrise zu lösen.' Bundesumweltministerin SteffiLemke in Ottawa #INC4 bmuv.de/PM10964

Important intervention by ⁦Bethanie Carney Almroth #PlasticsTreaty #INC4⁩ ⁦⁩during the first INC4 plenary, highlighting the evidence for the need to reduce the production of primary #plastic polymers and that ⁦The Scientists' Coalition⁩ stand ready to support delegates and the process. #PlasticsTreaty

💡 #Science helps break through the noise to achieve an effective global #PlasticsTreaty to end #PlasticPollution . And our independent scientists help negotiators understand the science. We are at #INC4 . Come talk with us!

👋 58 of our member scientists are here at INC-4 in Ottawa to help answer your scientific questions! Get to know many of them and their areas of expertise using this handy overview. ➡️ ikhapp.org/news-and-event…

📢 On the opening day of INC-4, our scientists have co-authored an article in Cambridge Core.

🎯 Based on the latest peer-reviewed science, to end plastic pollution the new treaty needs to set mandatory, time-bound global and national primary plastic polymer reduction targets.

🙋🏽 Are you at INC-4 and have a scientific question? Come ask us in person! We will be hosting an Ask-A-Scientist pop-up stand each day!

👋 On Tuesday, our scientists will be available on the 3rd floor of the Shaw Centre near the escalators during the lunch break from 1pm to 3pm.

In dieser ⁦AWI Medien⁩ online Meldung haben wir wichtige Hintergrund Infos zur 4. Verhandlungsrunde ( #INC4 ) für ein UN-Plastikabkommen zusammengestellt z.B. für Journalist:innen.
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Just in time for #INC4 , in our new paper, we argue why a production reduction in primary plastic polymers is the single most powerful & cost-effective lever to reduce #plastics pollution & #GHG emmissions. It's also an important economic incentive needed for instruments to work.

Danke ⁦Laura Beigel⁩ für diesen wichtigen umfassenden Bericht mit ⁦D Knoblauch⁩ und meiner
Einschätzung zum #Plastik abkommen , das ab heute in Ottawa weiterverhandelt wird! #Plasticstreaty #INC4 #Plastik ⁦AWI Medien⁩ ⁦Ecologic Institute⁩
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Facing the climate and nature emergency can mean sadness, loss and a disturbing sense of unreality.
Something I wrote a while back with my children in mind for Letters to the Earth read here by Benedict Cumberbatch Letters Live
NB other emotions - defiance, hope - are also available.

'I want to tell you that I am sorry, and that I tried'

To mark #EarthDay today, we've got something special for you. Here's Benedict Cumberbatch reading a powerful letter of apology from a father to his children: youtube.com/watch?v=yJvczR…

#EarthDay #PlanetvsPlastics #PlasticsTreaty
The hidden costs of an unwise use of plastics with insights from Leo Trasande, MD, MPP Francesca De Falco of the The Scientists' Coalition

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