Plastic Pollution, Law and Justice hybrid dialogue (INC-1 side event)

UPDATE: The recording of this session is available here.

The Environmental Governance Unit of UNEP’s Latin America and the Caribbean Office organized a hybrid dialogue on “Plastic Pollution, Law and Justice” on Thursday, 1 December from 12.00-1.00 pm (Panama Time), in coordination with the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment (GJIE), the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL), and the Ministry of the Environment of Uruguay, within the framework of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-1) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment.

This informal information session aimed to highlight the essential role of law and justice to tackle plastic pollution, bringing to the table substantive inputs on potential elements on the legal design of the future treaty.

High-level speakers :

• Justice John Pérez Brignani, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of Uruguay
• Justice Antonio Herman Benjamin, National High Court of Brazil (ST), and President, Global Judicial Institute on the Environment
• Christina Voigt, Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and Professor of Oslo University
• Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Director of the Law Division, United Nations Environment Programme, and Professor of Nairobi University 
• Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, Supreme Court of Pakistan
• Alexandra Harrington, Chair IUCN/WCEL Task Force on Plastic Pollution
• Andrea Brusco, UNEP Environmental Governance Regional Coordinator, Latin America and the Caribbean Office
• Justice Ragnhild Noer, Supreme Court of Norway
• Marcelo Cousillas, Legal Director of the Ministry of Environment of Uruguay and co-chair of the Montevideo Programme
• Nilufer Oral, Member of the United Nations International Law Commission and co-chair of the Study Group on Sea-level rise in relation to international law

Moderators:

• Justice Luc Lavrysen, President of the Constitutional Court of Belgium

Find more information on the informal information sessions organized by the host country at the INC here.

Find more details on the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-1) and its related documents here.