: UNEP chief appeals to start work on agreement on plastic pollution #IndiaNEWS #DEEP DIVE By Vishal GulatiNairobi, March 2 | Making a compassionate appeal for the establishment of an Intergovernmental

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UNEP chief appeals to start work on agreement on plastic pollution #IndiaNEWS #DEEP DIVE
By Vishal GulatiNairobi, March 2 | Making a compassionate appeal for the establishment of an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to kick-start work towards a global and legally binding agreement to address plastic pollution, UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen on Wednesday said it would have been the most important multilateral environmental deal since the Paris Agreement on climate change in 2015.
And such a deal could be transformational, she stressed.
Delivering her speech for the high-level segment of the resumed fifth environment Assembly in this Kenyan city, she said: While we meet at a time of turmoil, when peace remains more important than ever, I can say without doubt that UNEA 5. 2 is the most relevant and important gathering of this body since its formation.
Why? Because the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste is threatening to pull the very rug out from under the Sustainable Development Goals and with it whip away our aspirations to end hunger and poverty, deliver peace and equity, and live in harmony with the natural world.
As I told negotiators a few days ago, the world is demanding that we act on plastic pollution. They, the negotiators, have delivered the first step in this process by agreeing to establish an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) that will forge a global agreement on plastic pollution.
Inger asked to adopt the INC resolution so that negotiations can start, and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) can then land the agreement itself at the earliest possible opportunity, and no later than, the end of 2024.
And as we embark on this journey, let us be clear that the agreement will only truly count if it has clear provisions that are legally binding, as the resolution states.
It will only count if it adopts a full life-cycle approach stretching from design to production to circularity to reducing, managing and preventing waste.
We need to explore all options, including goals for new raw polymers brought into the economy. We need to explore monitoring and reporting mechanisms to support national action.
We need to set in place financing mechanism and means of implementation. We need to provide incentives for all stakeholders and engage with business. And, finally, we need to ensure that the agreement has real political support at the highest level to both agree on the deal in record time and start implementing it.
The UNEP chief said, So, the decisions we take today will be monumental. As we gavel the INC resolution, we will have the most important international multilateral environmental deal since Paris. And such a deal could be transformational.

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