{"id":6933,"date":"2022-12-05T17:24:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T11:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/?p=6933"},"modified":"2022-12-05T17:24:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T11:24:06","slug":"esdos-statement-at-1st-session-of-the-intergovernmental-negotiating-committee-to-develop-an-international-legally-binding-instrument-on-plastic-pollution-including-in-the-marine-environment-inc-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/esdos-statement-at-1st-session-of-the-intergovernmental-negotiating-committee-to-develop-an-international-legally-binding-instrument-on-plastic-pollution-including-in-the-marine-environment-inc-1\/","title":{"rendered":"ESDO&#8217;s statement at 1st session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-1)."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">On behalf of ESDO and as a participant organization of IPEN, Executive Director of ESDO <span class=\"xt0psk2\">Siddika Sultana<\/span> intervened on the 4th day of the INC Session. She focused on other aspects, including scientific and technical cooperation and coordination, research, and awareness raising. In her statement, she urged INC to adopt the precautionary principle in making decisions to prevent the harms of plastics and their associated chemicals. It is also important that this INC, as well as the Plastics Treaty, work with the independent scientific community and have access to the best available science, free from the influence of corporate interests.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The statement states that the scientific community will be a crucial stakeholder in supporting the INC in its work, including by providing scientific evidence on how to:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u25cf Reduce the amounts of plastics produced;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u25cf Substitute and eliminate plastics containing hazardous polymers and additives, and;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u25cf Assess technologies that are currently, without any scientific basis or independent evaluations, promoted as quick fixes to plastic pollution.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esdo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/INC_1_Other-aspects-including-scientific-and-technical-cooperation-and-coordination-research-and-awareness-raising.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1B_DxbcrJvLyg8K27_rf10JWBR7BnyzghckgXjGDyOi0isH9r0TlCGkmo\">Read the full statement<\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h0LsDf0-rz8\">Watch the full video <\/a>(Duration: 5:45:50 &#8211; 5:48:18)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of ESDO and as a participant organization of IPEN, Executive Director of ESDO Siddika Sultana intervened on the 4th day of the INC Session. She focused on other aspects, including scientific and technical cooperation and coordination, research, and awareness raising. In her statement, she urged INC to adopt the precautionary principle in making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-event","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6935,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933\/revisions\/6935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}