NEGLECTED: Environmental Justice Impacts of Plastic Pollution is the first report of its kind to highlight how plastic pollution hinders the achievement of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and demonstrates how the entire lifecycle of plastics—from source extraction to waste—disproportionately affects marginalized communities around the world.
PANELLISTS:
- Moderator: Keishamaza Rukikaire, Head of News and Media, UNEP
- Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš, Report Co-author, Founder and Executive Director, Azul
- Juliano Calil Ph.D., Lead Author, Senior Fellow, Center for theBlue Economy
- Malika Amélie Taoufiq-Cailliau, Legal Officer in the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions
- David Azoulay, Managing Attorney, Center for International Environmental Law
- James Wakibia, Community activist who led the plastic bag ban in Kenya
