High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution Co-chair 🇳🇴 Minister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim calls for an ambitious #plasticstreaty at the #ImmersedinChange Oceans Conference in Costa Rica 🇨🇷

Today the High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution held a virtual Negotiators Meeting with more than 60 representatives to reflect on #INC4, share perspectives for upcoming Intersessional Work and reaffirm a commitment to an ambitious treaty that ends plastic pollution.

The #G7 Leaders' Communique includes key priorities of HAC members, including a commitment to end plastic pollution, the need to reduce global production and consumption or primary plastic polymers, and addressing the full life cycle of plastic. g7italy.it/wp-content/upl…

Sign up for GENeva Environment Network launch and Panel Discussion on Status, Potentials and Risks of Chemical Recycling of Waste Plastics on 26 June during Basel OEWG-14 with participation from HAC Members Ecuador 🇪🇨, EU🇪🇺 and Switzerland 🇨🇭 👇 genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/events/launch-…

Compilation of draft text #plasticstreaty👇 wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/hand… HAC calls for enhanced ministerial engagement and dialogue and encourage all countries to intensify their efforts to establish areas of shared understanding and convergence towards #INC5.

Negotiators from over 60 HAC Member States met to discuss our call for binding provisions to restrain and reduce the production and consumption of primary plastic polymers to sustainable levels and on the way forward towards shared understanding and convergence at #INC5.

"Fiji, along with other so-called high ambition nations, wants to see (...) a treaty that will substantially reduce the production of unessential plastics, minimize plastic’s chemical load, and hold manufacturers responsible for the sustainable disposal of their products." 👇

"By co-chairing the High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution together with Rwanda, Norway is setting the bar high." Phys.org on mapping of plastic pollution sources and solutions in Norway 🇳🇴 NTNUnorway NILU phys.org

Welcome to Dr. Valentine Uwamariya Dr. Valentine Uwamariya, Minister of Environment of Rwanda 🇷🇼 as Co-Chair of the High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution alongside Minister of International Development of Norway 🇳🇴 Anne Beathe Tvinnereim Anne Beathe Tvinnereim hactoendplasticpollution.org/become-member/

High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution Anne Beathe Tvinnereim Permanent Mission of Rwanda to The United Nations Ministry of Environment - Rwanda Rwanda Environment Management Authority Rwanda in Geneva Norway MFA NorwayUN Norway in Geneva 🇳🇴 Norway in Kenya Thank you High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution for the warm welcome. I am committed to work with all partners/parties under the Coalition to end plastic pollution. Together we shall win.

Upcoming webinar on global producer responsibility and #plasticstreaty with HAC Members Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬 and Norway 🇳🇴 and other expert speakers. Tormod C. Endresen Antigua & Barbuda NY

Invitation to an upcoming webinar on "Financing considerations to support an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution" with contributions from HAC members Ghana 🇬🇭and EU 🇪🇺 Register at: weforum.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Join the discussion tomorrow on criteria & non criteria based approaches for #plastic products and on #ChemicalsofConcern with HAC members Uruguay 🇺🇾 and European Union 🇪🇺 #INC5

On #IndigenousPeoplesDay, we recognize the important role the science, knowledge and traditional practices of Indigenous Peoples and of local communities play in contributing to the sustainable management and protection of the environment from #plasticpollution.

Without new and effective control measures, plastic production is set to double in 20 years and plastic waste leaking into the ocean is projected to triple by 2040. This is an unacceptable burden to place on future generations. #InternationalYouthDay2024 hactoendplasticpollution.org

«It also puts the U.S. in closer alignment with a group of so-called high ambition countries that includes EU member states, South Korea, Canada, Rwanda & Peru and has called for a global plastics treaty to cap and phase down the production of plastic.»👇 reuters.com/sustainability…

Reflections by Halatoa Fua 🇨🇰 on the "Plastic Health Umbrella Review" Minderoo Foundation, noting it further underscores the need to address up- and mid-stream measures in the treaty to protect human health from plastic chemicals - a long-standing HAC priority. minderoo.org/resources/plas…

"A so-called “high-ambition” coalition of countries, supported by many scientists and environmental groups, say the treaty must prevent more plastic from being made in the first place." Article by grist on the recent support of the US to production limits grist.org/regulation/us-…

"Environmental groups have long argued that the treaty must include curbs on new plastic, a position backed by dozens of countries who call themselves the "high ambition coalition"." AFP News Agency on the #plasticstreaty experts meeting in Bangkok👇 f24.my/AYKi.X

Plastics and human rights event today with HAC Members Dominican Republic 🇩🇴, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 and Peru 🇵🇪, experts and United Nations 🇺🇳 Special Rapporteur Marcos A Orellana UN Human Rights and World Health Organization (WHO) Kritika Khanijo 👇