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For a pollution free planet, UNEP has been implementing plastic pollution-related projects in the Mekong basin countries since 2019. Past projects aimed to identify a region-based model for monitoring and assessment of plastic leakage and pollution reduction targeting land-based plastic leakage entering waterways such as rivers and canals or...

Dr Yasuhiko Hotta, Vice President of APRSCP and Programme Director of Sustainable Consumption and Production Area at IGES, identified six challenges for adopting EPR: interpretation of EPR, the difficulty of identifying producers, the infeasibility of the take-back scheme, competition with the informal waste management sector, waste collection and...

At the session 2 of 16th APRSCP, along with GIZ, SWITCh-Asia, and UNEP, IGES presented a key concept for APRSCP Strategy, IGES emphasized the changing emphasis of SCP over the last 30 years. Also, considering many ongoing international initiatives on SCP and circular economy, it is necessary to consider collaboration and synergies among many on...

ERIA and IGES organized the 3rd Meeting of ERIA’s Experts Working Group on Marine Plastic Debris on November 8-9, 2022 in Jakarta at ERIA HQ. During the meeting, OECD's new workstream to develop Asia-Pacific version of Plastic Outlook. The experts, IGES and ERIA agreed that it will be a good opportunity to have a regiional assessment on plastic...

Based on the S-16-3 Project, Hotta presented SCP Policy Landscape in the post COVID-19 Era. In conclusion, he emphasized the following policy research needs for socio-economic transition to SCP. (1) Envisioning concrete images of a society that has successfully met its mid-term and long-term goals, (2) Policy support for learning from model cases...

2015年以降、海洋プラスチック問題への関心の高まったこと、さらには循環経済への移 行が重要な国際政策課題と位置づけられたことにより、国際社会、各国そして企業レベル でのプラスチック資源循環への取組が大きく拡大している。特に、EUの2015年循環経済 行動計画（EC,2015）・20018年EUプラスチック戦略（EC,2018）の策定をきっかけとし 、欧州各国に限らず、アジア等の途上国も含め、世界各国でプラスチック政策の整備が進 んでいる。これに並行して、国連やG7・G20レベルにおいてプラスチックに関する議論や 合意が進んでいる。本年、３月には国連環境総会で、プラスチック汚染に関する国際約束 の作成に向けた決議が採択され、国際交渉委員会の開催準備が進むなど、国際的な議論は...