{"id":65246,"date":"2024-04-22T10:13:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T14:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=65246"},"modified":"2024-04-22T10:14:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T14:14:01","slug":"inc-4-greenpeace-canadas-reaction-to-ministers-guilbeault-introducing-a-federal-plastics-registry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/65246\/inc-4-greenpeace-canadas-reaction-to-ministers-guilbeault-introducing-a-federal-plastics-registry\/","title":{"rendered":"INC-4: Greenpeace Canada\u2019s reaction to Minister\u2019s Guilbeault introducing a Federal Plastics Registry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>OTTAWA \u2013<\/strong> In response to Minister Guilbeault announcement introducing a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/environment-climate-change\/news\/2024\/04\/the-government-of-canada-requires-producers-to-take-more-responsibility-for-the-plastic-they-put-on-the-market.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Federal Plastics Registry<\/a> during the the High-level partnerships day\u2019s opening Session at the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4), Sarah King, Head of Plastics &amp; Oceans at Greenpeace Canada, said:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cA plastics registry is a welcomed development by the Canadian government to increase transparency across the plastic industry. Now we need this information to guide the government in creating reduction targets on overall plastic production, and in working to eliminate the most problematic polymers, chemicals and products to begin to transition away from our overdependence on plastic and address the plastic crisis across the lifecycle. All countries must put Big Plastic and Big Oil under a microscope that will inevitably reveal a justification for a global, legally binding reduction target on plastic production within the Global Plastics Treaty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Notes to editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace has a delegation representing more than a dozen countries that will be present at INC4 throughout the duration of the talks. Spokespeople are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2024\/03\/228221b7-gpca_spokespeople-bios-inc4.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">available<\/a> in English, French, German, Swahili, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Bahasa, and Filipino.<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace Canada\u2019s media briefer about INC-4 is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2024\/03\/89692a9e-greenpeace-inc4-media-briefer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace International will host a press briefing inside the Shaw Center on Tuesday, April 23rd at 3PM ET, in the Media Center, Second Floor, Room 203. For journalists who are not UN accredited or outside of Ottawa, the event will be live streamed <a href=\"https:\/\/act.gp\/3JjGACl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Laura Bergamo, Head of Media, Greenpeace Canada<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:laura.bergamo@greenpeace.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">laura.bergamo@greenpeace.org<\/a> ; +1 438 928-5237<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Minister Guilbeault announcement introducing a Federal Plastics Registry during the the High-level partnerships day\u2019s opening Session at the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4), Sarah King, Head of Plastics &#038; Oceans at Greenpeace Canada, said:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":65197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"INC-4: Greenpeace Canada\u2019s reaction to Minister\u2019s Guilbeault introducing a Federal Plastics Registry","p4_og_description":"In response to Minister Guilbeault announcement introducing a Federal Plastics Registry during the the High-level partnerships day\u2019s opening Session at the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4), Sarah King, Head of Plastics & Oceans at Greenpeace Canada, said:","p4_og_image":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2024\/04\/b2780cf8-gp0sty5hj_low-res-800px.jpg","p4_og_image_id":"65197","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[125,2,3,5],"tags":[23,71],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-65246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equality","category-live-sustainably","category-nature","category-our-work","tag-climate","tag-plastic","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65247,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65246\/revisions\/65247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65246"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=65246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}