2023 Volume 34 Issue 1 Pages 3-11
In March 2022, UNEPʼs highest decision-making body, the United Nations Environment Assembly, adopted the resolution entitled, End Plastic Pollution: Towards an International Legally Binding Instrument. Through this resolution, the international community has decisively commenced concrete actions to respond to the problem of global marine plastic pollution by drafting an international treaty. This paper examines how this new treaty aims to end plastic pollution; and reviews the existing treaties in place to address plastic pollution, including The Basel Convention and its recent, Plastic Amendments. It also looks at the applicability of some environmental principles that could deal with the issue. This examination will provide some hints for the new global treaty on plastic pollution and its implications for the Arctic region.
