INC‑5.2, the resumed session of the UN Environment Programme’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC), marks the final stage in the effort to negotiate an international, legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution.
Together with fellow coordinators, Trisia Farrelly and Bethanie Carney Almroth,
Professor Richard Thompson OBE FRS
is leading the delegation of 58 members of the Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty- an international network of 450 independent scientists spanning 65 countries worldwide.
This delegation will include other researchers affiliated with the University of Plymouth:
Dr Max Kelly
,
Lucy Howarth-Forster
,
Professor Sabine Pahl
(University of Vienna), and
Dr Winnie Courtene-Jones
(Bangor University).