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G7 leaders release tepid plans for addressing climate change and ocean plastic pollution – Greenpeace response
by Dawn Marie Elisse Mundo | June 18, 2018
Québec City, Canada – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the closure of what he described as “a successful G7 Summit with ambitious objectives” on the environmental front, including a status quo commitment on climate change and a G7 Ocean Plastics Charter endorsed by five nations. In response to the climate announcement, Greenpeace International Executive Director Jennifer […]
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#BreakFreeFromPlastic urges EU countries to take rapid action to effectively transpose the single-use plastics Directive
by Estelle Eonnet | July 16, 2020
PRESS RELEASE Brussels, 16 July 2020 An assessment from the #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement, released today, reveals that very few EU countries are on track for timely and ambitious transposition of the EU Directive on single-use plastics. Countries in the EU must take rapid and comprehensive action to end pollution from single-use plastics. The single-use plastics (SUP) […]
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University of California, Berkeley, leads the way with country’s strongest single-use plastic ban
by admin | May 5, 2020
Campus commits to an unprecedented, comprehensive plastic policy, which eliminates all non-essential single-use plastic by 2030 Press Release April 16, 2020 | CALPIRG Student BERKELEY, Calif. — The University of California, Berkeley has committed to eliminating all non-essential single-use plastic with viable alternatives by 2030. This target, adopted by Chancellor Carol Christ, makes history by being the most […]
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