Real Money = Real Action | Why a Dedicated Fund is Essential for Effectively Implementing the GPT
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In this episode, Dominic Coppens (Senior Managing Associate at Sidley Austin in Brussels and Professor of International Economic Law at Maastricht University in the Netherlands); Doun Moon (Policy and Research Officer at GAIA Global); Hibaa-Haibado Ismael (Djibouti INC Focal Point, Third Counsellor, and Deputy Permanent Representative to UNEP and UN-Habitat at the Embassy of Djibouti); and Mohamed Kamal (GAIA Africa Member and Executive Director at the Greenish Foundation in Egypt) talk to host Niven Reddy (Regional Coordinator of GAIA & BFFP in Africa) about why a dedicated fund is essential for effectively implementing the Global Plastics Treaty.
We’ll unpack the crucial role of dedicated funding in facilitating meaningful progress and ensuring the treaty’s ambitious goals are met.
We’ll unpack the crucial role of dedicated funding in facilitating meaningful progress and ensuring the treaty’s ambitious goals are met.
Chapters
- 00:04 Introduction and need for a dedicated fund
- 04:58 Key features of a dedicated fund
- 06:55 Obstacles to creating a dedicated fund
- 11:06 Steps for creating the fund post-INC5
- 13:32 Contributors to the fund
- 17:41 Role of private finance in the dedicated fund
- 21:21 Extended Producer Responsibility schemes
- 24:24 Plastic pollution fee proposal
