{"id":53526,"date":"2022-10-26T09:51:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T20:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=53526"},"modified":"2024-07-11T12:33:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T00:33:22","slug":"greenpeace-aotearoa-renews-call-for-a-strong-global-plastics-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/greenpeace-aotearoa-renews-call-for-a-strong-global-plastics-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace Aotearoa renews call for a strong global plastics treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greenpeace Aotearoa has renewed calls for the government to advocate for a strong, legally-binding global plastics treaty as world governments meet at the first Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting (INC1) in Uruguay next month.<\/p>\n\n<p>A petition for a plastics treaty that centers justice launched earlier this year by Greenpeace Aotearoa ahead of the United Nations Environment Assembly 5.2 and has already gathered over <a href=\"https:\/\/petition.act.greenpeace.org.nz\/plastic-global-treaty?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=post-action&amp;utm_campaign=Plastics\">27,000 signatures<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cA strong global plastics treaty means keeping oil and gas in the ground, holding big polluters accountable and building refill and reuse systems to eliminate the need for single-use plastics,\u201d Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Juressa Lee says.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cIt means a fair and equitable transition for affected workers and frontline communities, protecting the climate and delivering a clean, safe planet for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>This month, the Ministry for the Environment (MFE) and Stats NZ released its report Our Marine Environment 2022, highlighting the devastating impacts of plastic and microplastics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>The report reveals that microplastics were found in 75 percent of fish across 10 commercially valuable species in southern New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n<p>Lee says that because of interconnecting oceans and a global supply chain, we need world governments to work together for a solution that matches the scale of the problem, and we need leadership from the New Zealand Government.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cAn ambitious global plastics treaty has the potential to put the world on a path towards a plastic-free future but world governments need to be sure that it delivers on its promises.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cPlastic pollution threatens our health and that of our future generations. It\u2019s choking our oceans and killing precious wildlife, and now that it has entered our food chain and even breast milk &#8211; we\u2019re eating it, and so are our newborn p\u0113pi, \u201d Lee says.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cAs tangata whenua and tangata moana, I know that our indigenous and coastal communities in the Pacific are frontline to plastic pollution as well as the climate crisis, that plastic production is also fueling. Yet these communities contribute the least to causing these crises. 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I connect the dots between 160+ years of colonisation, extractivism, social and environmental harms and injustices and a worldview that sees the environment as separate to people. That people are somehow entitled to take, own, throw away, destroy and degrade. We are witnessing the impacts from living in a system rooted in colonialism and racism and extractive industries are devastating the planet and furthering the climate crisis. Now, wannabe miners are eyeing up the seabed in the South Taranaki Bight, and also seeking to plunder the deep seas. This problem is colossal, but so is our fight to protect te taiao. There are solutions to these issues. We must stop seabed mining before it starts.","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/author\/juressa\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53527,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53526\/revisions\/53527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53526"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=53526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}