Plastic represents 85% of marine litter Bolivar Cañizares, director of the environment at the Department of International Organizations at the Panama Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says that every year 11 million metric tons of this material enters the ocean.
He does this in an article on the occasion of the United Nations negotiations on the High Seas to be held in New York by day 26.
Cañizares remembers this 175 countries supported the adoption of a binding agreement About these materials during the celebrations of the United Nations Assembly for the Environment last March.
The first session of the UN Working Group to negotiate this first international agreement to prevent plastic pollution will take place in November.with determination to promote measures of national and international cooperation reduce plastic pollution in the marine environment, including existing plastic pollution.
“If additional measures are not taken, there will be 150 million tons of plastic floating in the oceans by 2025,” Cañizares warns.Panama will be a key player in this negotiation as one of the few countries in the region drafting a national regulation on plastics reduction and action plans on marine litter collection.
In his view, it also represents an opportunity, quoting Inger Andersen, director-general of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), to emphasize that the agreement will help move towards a circular economy, reducing the volume of plastics that result. oceans are more than 80% by 2040 and raw plastic production is 55%.
It also adds that it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25% and create around 700,000 jobs.
The full text of Bolivar Cañizares can be read and downloaded from Agencia EFE at Efeverde.com.
Source: Informacion
