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Busan, South Korea – At a pivotal moment for the fight against plastic pollution, experts from the food and beverage industry have just wrapped up an important End Plastic Pollution International Collaborative (EPPIC) convening. The high-level dialogue, held alongside the fifth session of the…

As the world is developing an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (a global plastics treaty), work between formal negotiating sessions is ongoing.

This is Legal Brief 4: IUCN WCEL legal brief INC Intersessional Expert Group 2 Criteria and Non-Criteria Approaches

This is Legal Brief 3: IUCN WCEL legal brief for the INC Intersessional Expert Group 2 Questionnaire Summary with an Executive Summary

This is Legal Brief 2: IUCN WCEL legal brief INC Intersessional Expert Group 1 Financing

This is Legal Brief 1: Compilation Document Summary for the INC Intersessional work

A new report on the Building River Dialogue and Governance (BRIDGE) programme, outlining its trajectory of transboundary water management, was published by IUCN for World Water Week 2024, happening this week in Stockholm, Sweden. 

The report firstly presents a summary of…

This introductory report's target audience is professionals from governments, civil society, private sector, and other stakeholders who know multilateral processes and treaties but are not high seas “BBNJ (biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction) experts”. The report is more digestible than…

An Introduction to the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction

To address the threat that plastic poses to our ocean, climate, economies, and health, IUCN and the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law have prepared a series of 10 briefings for negotiators to assist them in the upcoming Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution in…