| المساهمون: |
Raps, Hervé (VerfasserIn); Cropper, Maureen (VerfasserIn); Bald, Caroline (VerfasserIn); Brunner, Manuel (VerfasserIn); Canonizado, Elvia Maya (VerfasserIn); Charles, Dominic (VerfasserIn); Chiles, Thomas C. (VerfasserIn); Donohue, Mary J. (VerfasserIn); Enck, Judith (VerfasserIn); Fenichel, Patrick (VerfasserIn); Fleming, Lora E. (VerfasserIn); Ferrier-Pages, Christine (VerfasserIn); Fordham, Richard (VerfasserIn); Gozt, Aleksandra (VerfasserIn); Griffin, Carly (VerfasserIn); Hahn, Mark E. (VerfasserIn); Haryanto, Budi (VerfasserIn); Hixson, Richard (VerfasserIn); Ianelli, Hannah (VerfasserIn); James, Bryan D. (VerfasserIn); Kumar, Pushpam (VerfasserIn); Laborde, Amalia (VerfasserIn); Law, Kara Lavender (VerfasserIn); Martin, Keith (VerfasserIn); Mu, Jenna (VerfasserIn); Mulders, Yannick (VerfasserIn); Mustapha, Adetoun (VerfasserIn); Niu, Jia (VerfasserIn); Pahl, Sabine (VerfasserIn); Park, Yongjoon (VerfasserIn); Pedrotti, Maria-Luiza (VerfasserIn); Pitt, Jordan Avery (VerfasserIn); Ruchirawat, Mathuros (VerfasserIn); Seewoo, Bhedita Jaya (VerfasserIn); Spring, Margaret (VerfasserIn); Stegeman, John J. (VerfasserIn); Suk, William (VerfasserIn); Symeonides, Christos (VerfasserIn); takada, Hideshige (VerfasserIn); Thompson, Richard (VerfasserIn); Vicini, S.J., Andrea (VerfasserIn); Wang, Zhanyun (VerfasserIn); Whitman, Ella (VerfasserIn); Wirth, David A. (VerfasserIn); Wolff, Megan (VerfasserIn); Yousuf, Aroub K. (VerfasserIn); Dunlop, Sarah (VerfasserIn) |
| مستخلص: |
Plastics convey enormous benefits to humankind, but current patterns of plastic production, use, and disposal with little attention to sustainable design and a near absence of recovery, reuse, and recycling are responsible for grave harms to health, great economic costs, and deep societal injustices. These harms are rapidly worsening. Knowledge of plastics’ harms is still incomplete, but the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health concludes there is sufficient evidence of plastics’ clear and present danger to require urgent intervention against the plastic crisis at global scale.This extensive analysis documents plastics’ negative impacts on: (i) human health and well-being, focusing on vulnerable populations including pregnant mothers, children, workers, ethnic minorities, and indigenous peoples; (ii) on the global environment, focusing on the ocean’s health, and (iii) the economy. The report articulates specific sustainable policy solutions that can be implemented by governments and industries to minimize the environmental and health consequences of the global contamination by plastics. This is an urgent problem that must be addressed in parallel to climate change, as they are closely intertwined.Plastic production is expected to triple in the next three decades due to reconversion of fossil fuel production forced by the progressive shift to electric vehicles. If not controlled, this trend will significantly increase global environmental contamination and health repercussions, and the burden of these impacts will especially target the most disadvantaged populations. This situation calls for immediate action according to principles of social and environmental justice.The Commission urges that a cap on global plastic production with targets, timetables and national contributions be a central provision of the Global Plastics Treaty, currently under negotiation pursuant to a mandate from the United Nations Environment Assembly |
