Jed Alegado #PlasticsTreaty

🗣️ Hear from global climate leaders on on where today’s climate playbook is falling short - and what needs to change at a critical moment for solidarity and multilateralism.

🗓 Jan 21
⏰ 8:30 am EST
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Corruption compromises climate resilience in the Philippines - New Mandala The allure of kickbacks limits policy

NEW 🇵🇭 The political economy of kickbacks is central to why the Philippine government's strategy for coping with climate change is still too fixated on physical infrastructure, write Joseph Alegado and Cleo Calimbahin. www.newmandala.org/corruption-c...

[Newsstand] ‘Survey says?’ History will repeat itself The Marcos administration will win big in the Senate, but a few of Duterte’s allies will slip through. We’ve seen this film before.

Instructive interviews IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE with the heads of polling firms Pulse Asia & Octa led me to dig into more election data. Yup, we’ve seen this film before. Column:
https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/newsstand-survey-says-history-will-repeat-itself-senatorial-surveys-2025/

Disposable issues: The Sociological Review magazine’s #TSRWaste issue looks at wasted resources, wasted opportunities and wasted lives.

Contributions from Miriam Emefa Dzah, @jedalegado.bsky.social, Aline Stehrenberger, Amit Balmiki, Mark Parsons, Alexandrina Vanke and many more.

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A snippet from my PhD dissertation on @sociologicalreview.bsky.social Magazine’s latest themed issue on #TSRWaste

Read more! 👇🏽

Kaunti lang tbh. 😅

Hold the line! Break free from brackets!

#BreakFreeFromPlastic
#INC5
#PlasticsTreaty
#BeatPlasticPollution

Interesting panel in #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty in Busan. 👇🏽

✅ Signatories are independent scientists with expertise on plastics and free of conflicts of interest in the plastics supply chain. Endorsed already by a globally diverse community of scientists, the declaration is still open for signature.

📰 Read the press release in English: lnkd.in/eRd4sfHa

🎯 Based on robust scientific evidence, the declaration outlines a range of legally binding obligations needed across the full life cycle of plastics to achieve an effective treaty.

👋 Hey #INC5 delegates!

👩🏽🔬👨🏻🔬🧑🏼🔬 Did you know that more than 900 independent scientists have signed a new declaration calling UN negotiators to agree on a comprehensive and ambitious global #plasticstreaty to end plastic pollution by 2040?

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🚨 Ahead of #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty in Busan next week, our latest #PREPRINT examines plastic credits as a compensatory measure for addressing plastic pollution. Instead of reducing pollution, it could exacerbate fragmented plastics governance & reinforce #WasteColonialism.
👉🏽 zenodo.org/records/141143…

💥💥💥 BREAKING: BFFP-CIEL one-stop shop Streamlined comparison for Delegates to work with the 🪑 Non- Paper & 📃 Compilation Draft Text of the #PlasticsTreaty

READ: www.ciel.org/wp-content/u...