Project overview:
The Circular Cities Beyond Plastics project (ID 10547) will facilitate circular actions at the city level to accelerate the transition to a circular economy, in line with government and business commitments on addressing marine plastics and plastic pollution.
The project will be implemented in the following 6 cities with impacts on the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean:
- Barranquilla, Colombia.
- Cartagena, Colombia.
- Panama City, Panama.
- Colón, Panama.
- Kingston, Jamaica.
- Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Marine litter within the three countries is adversely affecting the coastal waters and impacting key sectors from tourism to fisheries. Insufficient waste management capacities and practices affect millions of inhabitants whose livelihoods are based on fragile coastal marine areas. Furthermore, there is a larger context of excessive waste generation, knowledge gaps, and ineffective/absent policy and regulatory frameworks.
Project objectives:
- Support city authorities to set up regulatory frameworks and test key policy instruments to provide enabling conditions for developing a more circular plastic economy.
- Support business innovation in target LAC cities, by stimulating circular design on products, service, business models, and collection and recycling systems, with value chain cooperation.
- Establish a common vision, approaches, and leadership for LAC cities by setting up an inter-city network to align regional strategy and actions to stimulate cities to cooperate at the regional level.
- Develop various knowledge products, capacity-building activities, and monitoring schemes, to enable stakeholders to adopt best practices in more LAC cities.
Key partners / Stakeholders:
Project implementation will be supported in each of the countries and at the regional level by various industry partners, civil society organizations and academic and research institutes.
- Country implementing Partners:
Project Contact
Laverne Walker
Regional Project Manager
UNEP - Cartagena Convention Secretariat and Caribbean Environment Programme (CEP)
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