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LOCATION:Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
SUMMARY:Fostering trade-related cooperation on plastic pollution: The dialo
 gue on plastic pollution beyond MC13
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:IISD Trade Hub session\n\nPlastic pollution affects all countri
 es and occurs across the life cycle of plastics\, with negative impacts on
  ecosystems on land and in the marine environment.  Further\, plastic pol
 lution affects public health and economic sectors from fisheries and agric
 ulture to manufacturing and tourism. The plastics sector also contributes 
 significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions. Over the past 60 years\,
  plastics production has increased 230-fold from 2 million metric tonnes (
 Mt) in 1950 to 460 million Mt in 2019. Plastic pollution has also been inc
 reasing\, with stocks of accumulated plastics in rivers and oceans project
 ed to triple more than from 140 Mt in 2019 to 493 Mt in 2060.\n\nThe WTO D
 ialogue on Plastics Pollution (DPP) was established in 2020 and now brings
  together 76 WTO Members\, representing over 75% of global plastics trade.
  At the Thirteenth WTO Ministerial Conference (MC13)\, the DPP cosponsors 
 are expected to update on the progress of their work\, commitments to conc
 rete actions\, and pathways forward for their work. A ministerial statemen
 t\, prepared in advance of MC13\, has highlighted the role of data transpa
 rency in plastics trade\, the important role of environmentally sound\, sa
 fe and effective non-plastic substitutes and alternatives\, as well as the
  key role of trade-in-services which prevent and mitigate plastic pollutio
 n.  \n\nThe work of the DPP highlights growing recognition of the releva
 nce of trade to international efforts to end plastic pollution. In additio
 n to the numerous challenges associated with trade in plastic waste\, inte
 rnational trade plays a key role in diffusion of plastics and plastic prod
 ucts globally. Cooperation on trade policies will be critical to transform
 ing the plastics sector and global supply chains\, including by reducing a
 nd eliminating trade in harmful and problematic plastics and plastic produ
 cts and in promoting coordination and transparency on trade flows\, standa
 rds and regulations key to tackling pollution. Trade will also have a role
  to play in the diffusion of environmentally sound technologies and servic
 es to address plastic pollution as well as environmentally sound and safe 
 non-plastic substitutes. A crosscutting priority will be to ensure trade-r
 elated capacity-building and adequate financing to support developing coun
 tries to harness trade and trade policies to support their plastic polluti
 on policies.\n\nThis session will bring together trade delegates and stake
 holders to highlight where trade-related cooperation can support global ef
 forts to end plastic pollution across the full life cycle of plastics. It 
 will focus on progress in discussion of trade-related dimensions in the DP
 P and within the context of ongoing negotiations for a global plastics tre
 aty to address plastic pollution.\n\nPanelists will also discuss the concr
 ete actions that DPP members could take\, collectively and individually\, 
 on the road to MC14\, to address plastic pollution through trade-related m
 easures. A core theme of this panel will be how cooperation at the WTO can
  inform and support progress in the negotiations for a new legally binding
  instrument to end plastic pollution\, bridging the world’s environmenta
 l and trade regimes.\n\n \n\nTrade rules to protect the natural world: Ho
 w do we allocate the burden of change?\n\nModerator and welcome remarks:\n
 \n\nDr. Carolyn Deere Birkbeck\, Executive Director\, Forum on Trade\, Env
 ironment &amp\; the SDGs (TESS)\n\n\nPanel speakers:\n\n\nH.E. Mr. Ryad Me
 zzour\, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Kingdom of Morocco\nMs. Chan
 tal Line Carpentier\, Head\, Trade\, Environment\, Climate Change\, and Su
 stainable Development Division on International Trade and Commodities\, UN
 CTAD\nMr. Aik Hoe Lim\, Director\, Trade and Environment Division\, WTO\nI
 sabel Jarrett\, Senior Manager\, Preventing Ocean Plastics\, The Pew Chari
 table Trusts\n\n\n\n\n\n \nhttps://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news24_e/pp
 esp_26jan24_e.htm\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meetin
 g/fostering-trade-related-cooperation-plastic-pollution-dialogue-plastic-p
 ollution-beyond
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