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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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Every year, the amount of plastic waste entering aquatic ecosystems between 9-14 million tons of projection could nearly triple to 23-37 millon tons per year by 2040.

Marine litter negatively affects the environment, people and coastal economies around the world. In the Pacific Region, the problem is even more severe given countries reliance on healthy ocean ecosystems and services.

Action conducted by the Pacific Ocean Litter Youth Project (POLYP) & Suva Harbour Foundation Marine litter negatively affects the environment, people and coastal economies around the world. In the Pacific region, the problem is even more severe given countries’ reliance on healthy ocean ecosystems and services

This document gives an overview of the current state of waste management in Fiji. Key data compiled in this document include: "waste managements acts, waste categorization, waste collection, waste disposal, waste recycling, financial assistance to manage waste in country and recommendations to improve solid waste management in Fiji.