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General Information
Resolution
49208
Period covered
I. IUCN Constituencies implementing this Resolution
IUCN Members
Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife ( Kenya )
Wildlife Direct Kenya ( Kenya )
Watamu Marine ( Kenya )
Ministry of Forestry, Fisheries & The Environment ( South Africa )
Western Indian Ocean Marine Sciences Association ( United Republic of Tanzania )
Ministry of Agriculture and Environment ( Viet Nam )
Centre for Supporting Green Development ( Viet Nam )
Fiji Department of Environment ( Fiji )
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Samoa ( Samoa )
Saint Lucia National Trust ( Saint Lucia )
Ministry of Climate Change, Meteorology, Natural Disaster, Environment and Energy ( Vanuatu )
IUCN Commissions
IUCN Commission on Education and Communication 2021-2025
IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law 2021-2025
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas 2021-2025
IUCN Secretariat
Yes
Other non-IUCN related organisations
Governments of the countries listed; Ministries of Environment, WTO (Informal Dialogues on Plastic), UNEP Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, World Bank, UN partners, Ubuntoo Knowledge Platform for plastics, Organization of Eastern Caribbean States - OECS, Association of Small Island States (AOSIS)
II. Implementation
Activities carried out to implement this Resolution
Capacity-building
Convene stakeholders/Networking
Education/Communication/Raising awareness
Field activities
Fundraising
Policy influencing/advocacy
Scientific/technical activities
Describe the results/achievements of the activities
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)
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)
Challenges/obstacles encountered in the implementation of this Resolution and measures taken
Funding. Fundraising Time. Lack of staff time to work towards this with partners as we have no staff time to charge for this work.
Future actions / activities needed for the implementation of this Resolution
Fundraising. Alignment with other plastics Resolutions and linking up within the CCA centre on projects to develop. Alignment with WCPA.
Are these actions/activities planned?
No
III. Status of implementation
Implementation status of this Resolution
Initiated: first stages of implementation
IV. Additional Information
External link(s)
Report status
Published