WCC 2020 Res 019 - Activity Report

The Government of Fiji, in partnership with UNEP and UNTAD, held the first National Symposium Plastic Pollution Prevention on 16-18 Oct. 2024. I contributed a 15 min. presentation (virtual as I was not in Suva) on the key policy recommendations for plastic waste leakage reduction from the Waste management, Tourism and Fisheries sectors, that resulted from the IUCN Plastic Waste Free Islands project - Pacific, for which I had been contracted as a consultant to develop these recommendations. During the symposium, the Permanent Secretary for Environment in Fiji announced that a container deposit scheme would be put in place in Fiji.

As a Fiji-based environmental legal consultant with Environmental Law Oceania Consultancy, I am contracted to provide legal expertise as part of a project team lead by Searious Business (NL)and with funding from the SPREP PacWastePlus project, for the design of the Solomon Island product stewardship scheme (PSS) in collaboration with the Government of the Solomon Islands. I am contracted to contribute to the drafting of Standard Operating Procedures for the PSS, and of drafting notes for the legislative and regulatory basis for the PSS and a beverage container deposit scheme. Oct.2024 - Apr 2025

As a Fiji-based environmental legal consultant with Environmental Law Oceania Consultancy, I provided legal expertise as part of a project team lead by Searious Business (NL)and with funding from the SPREP PacWastePlus project, for the design of the Vanuatu product stewardship scheme (PSS) in collaboration with Vanuatu Department of Environmental Protection and Conservation and the Government of Vanuatu. I contributed to the drafting of Standard Operating Procedures for the operations of the PSS, of drafting notes for a PSS Act and drafting notes for beverage container deposit scheme regulations- Jun – Dec 2024