{"id":12622,"date":"2022-05-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/?p=12622"},"modified":"2022-05-02T09:41:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T07:41:43","slug":"business-brief-upcoming-un-treaty-on-plastic-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/business-brief-upcoming-un-treaty-on-plastic-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Business brief: Upcoming UN treaty on plastic pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bm-block bm-full_view bm-vt-full_view \">\n<div class=\"vf view-type view-type-full ng-article clearfix\">\n<div class=\"body\">\n<div class=\"ezxmltext-field\">\n<p><strong>On 2 March 2022, at the resumed fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2), member states adopted a resolution: <a href=\"https:\/\/wedocs.unep.org\/bitstream\/handle\/20.500.11822\/38522\/k2200647_-_unep-ea-5-l-23-rev-1_-_advance.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">End plastic pollution: towards an international legally binding instrument<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This resolution requests that the UNEP Executive Director convenes an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbcsd.org\/contentwbc\/download\/14029\/202484\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This summary<\/a> suggests three key areas where business can take action in the context of this new resolution.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbcsd.org\/Programs\/Circular-Economy\/Sustainable-Plastics-and-Packaging-Value-Chains\/Resources\/Business-brief-Upcoming-UN-treaty-on-plastic-pollution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.wbcsd.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 March 2022, at the resumed fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2), member states adopted a resolution: End plastic &#8230; <a class=\"cz_readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/business-brief-upcoming-un-treaty-on-plastic-pollution\/\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span>\u010c\u00edst v\u00edce<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","iawp_total_views":0},"categories":[50,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12623,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622\/revisions\/12623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbcsd.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}