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Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreement: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution - Policy Brief

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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Including trade provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) is not new and has proven to be an effective tool to operationalize and ensure the realization of environmental agreements. MEAs often include specific substantive or procedural provisions that may require or encourage Parties to restrict, regulate, or otherwise condition international trade as part of the package of instruments to achieve their objectives.

Plastics Treaty Legal Advisory Service Note : Key Principles

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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This note highlights different ways of operationalising key principles including considerations relevant to determining their role content and impact in a Plastics Treaty.

Considerations for the Use of an Existing Financial Mechanism, to Fund Treaty Implementation Plastic Treaty Legal Advisory Service Note

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This note considers existing multilateral financial mechanisms that may be suitable for providing finance to assist developing states to implement a plastics treaty and the advantages and disadvantages of using an existing mechanism as opposed to establishing a new mechanism

Plastics Treaty Legal Advisory Service Note - Non-Party Provisions

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The inclusion of 'Non-party provisions' in a Plastics Treaty could have an important influence on plastic production within nations that do not become a party to the Treaty. This note summarises a range of precedents in multilateral treaties for Non-party provisions along with advantages and disadvantages of Non-party provisions

Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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Multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) aim to address environmental issues of global concern by creating uniform and streamlined approaches and rules to apply to all parties. Treaties serve as agreements between two (or more) States that enter into an agreement, thus creating specific obligations and rights for those parties.

World Trade Organisation Rules and Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution - Technical Note

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At the core there is no conflict between the WTO system and possible provisions of the future Plastic Treaty, as outlined in UNEPs option paper. However WTO rules are an important safeguard against domestic arbitrary or unjustifiable discriminatory measures.

Recommended Procedures: Disposal and Landfilling of Asbestos Containing Wastes

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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The management and disposal of asbestos and asbestos containing materials (ACM) is an ongoing concern in the Pacific region. In seeking to improve the ways that asbestos and asbestos containing materials are managed, our project's focus is to prevent exposure to asbestos fibres in order to eliminate asbestos related diseases.

Assessment of Alternative to Single-use Disposable Diapers. Volume 3: Field Work and Results

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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Single-use disposable diapers have been identified as a waste issue in Pacific countries, both in landfills and as a commonly littered item.

Assessment of Alternative to Single-use Disposable Diapers. Volume 4: Guidance for Decision Makers.

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Assessment of Alternatives to Single-Use Disposable Diapers. Volume 5: Guidance for Communities and Private Sector

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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Single-use disposable diapers have been identified as a waste issue in Pacific countries, both in landfills and as a commonly littered item. The Pacific faces challenges: attempting to reduce environmental risks from the disposal of single-use disposable diapers, while balancing the social and economic benefits that single-use disposable diapers bring.

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