WCC 2020 Res 069 - Progress Report

Summary from the Activity Reports:
CEC:
Action Description Status
Education/Communication/Raising awareness: Mr Vishal Gupta, the CEC commission member from India undertook several outreach activities and conducted lectures on the importance of Sustainable travel and the imminent need to move away from single use plastics. These activities were taken up as part of communication and outreach programme. (Completed)
Field activities: With an aim towards educating the citizens on the risks and dangers of plastic pollution a one week " Clean Our Hills " campaign was undertaken with a group of 21 volunteers in Northern part of India. This effort was coordinated under the leadership of Mr Vishal gupta, a veteran pilot. The group carried Eco bags for collection of plastic waste along several trekking and hill trails. The enthusiasm of the volunteers for fantastic and some even collected plastic waste which were strewn at a distance along mountain slopes. a Standard operating procedure has been put in place to ensure that every trekking group carries Eco bags and pick up any plastic litter as and when they find it. This has resulted in much cleaner and pristine environment (ONGOING).
CEC work:
1. Communication and Outreach ( 300 persons)
2. Cleaner hills due to the "Clean our Hills" campaign. (21 volunteers)
3. Conduced several lectures on Sustainable development, Climate Change, Climate Justice and on the importance of ' Moderation in Consumption" vis a vis its relation to sustainability.

SECRETARIAT UPDATE:
Policy influencing/advocacy: Working toward the Global Plastics Treaty with IUCN IPC team and plastics team (ONGOING).
Future Actions: Capacity-building: Training for negotiators and implementers on the Treaty.
Scientific/technical activities: Conservation Action Centre retreat proposed some work linking Protected Areas to Plastics work. Links IBAT; STAR data to Plastics data (loads of data) to link to Resolution 019 on elimination of plastics in protected areas. Secretariat has worked with Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Viet Nam, Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, St Lucia, Sao Tome, and in The Baltics and the Med for plastic pollution work overall. Needs to link to Protected Areas now.
Secretariat has also been involved with convenings for the IPC in the INC negotiations for the plastics treaty, will continue this work we hope in 2023-24.
See plastics scientific and policy reports here: https://www.iucn.org/search?key=plastics - all of this links to Protected Areas in these countries.

Wildlife Kenya: Design And Production Of Assorted Plastic Free Campaign Materials campaign - Kenya (see https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/resrecrepattach/ELIMINATE%20PLASTIC%20POLLUTION%20IN%20PROTECTED%20AREAS%20-%20report%20from%20Kenya.pdf)