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$400 billion of planned petrochemical outlay at risk on exaggerated plastics demand
Carbon Tracker Initiative, 04 September 2020
Key Quotes
Remove the plastic pillar holding up the future of the oil
industry, and the whole narrative of rising oil demand collapses.
Kingsmill Bond, Carbon Tracker Energy Strategist and report lead
author.
There are huge benefits in the change from the current linear
system to a more circular one. You can have all the functionality
of plastics but at half the capital cost, half the amount of
feedstock, 700,000 additional jobs and 80% less plastic pollution.
Yoni Shiran, lead author of Breaking the Plastic Wave
Succesful training on Asia – Europe Cooperation Against Waste Crime
March 17, 2021
As part of the WasteForce project, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), in partnership with the United Nations University (UNU) SCYCLE programme and with support from WasteForce partners, INTERPOL, held a 3 day on-line training workshop on 24-26 February 2021 on the prosecution of waste crime.
The training gathered more than 120 participants, representatives of prosecution and judicial authorities, customs officials, police, environmental inspectorates, and Ministries from 31 countries in Asia Pacific, Europe, and worldwide, as well as representatives from international organisations: UNEP, UNU-UNITAR, INTERPOL, Secretariat of the Basel Convention, OLAF, Frontex, UNODC, IMPEL and RILO AP.
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Parties to the Basel Convention are considering legally binding amendments to the Convention that would dramatically expand controls and trade bans governing international shipments of used products managed for reuse and non-hazardous electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) destined for materials recovery.
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (Basel Convention) is an international agreement among 188 Parties covering transboundary shipments of hazardous and “other” waste. The Convention informs legal requirements for waste classification and trade flows and serves as the de facto global legal framework governing the circular economy. The Convention has particular relevance to U.S. companies as trade in covered wastes with the U.S. is banned in most instances because the U.S. is a non-party to the Convention.
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Parties to the Basel Convention are considering legally binding amendments to the Convention that would dramatically expand controls and trade bans governing international shipments of used products managed for reuse and non-hazardous electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) destined for materials recovery.
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (Basel Convention) is an international agreement among 188 Parties covering transboundary shipments of hazardous and “other” waste. The Convention informs legal requirements for waste classification and trade flows and serves as the de facto global legal framework governing the circular economy. The Convention has particular relevance to U.S. companies as trade in covered wastes with the U.S. is banned in most instances because the U.S. is a non-party to the Convention.