🔴BREAKING: New UNESCO State of the Ocean Report 2024 states that:
🤯 “it has been estimated that there are over 170 trillion plastic particles floating in the ocean, based on data from 11,777 stations, weighing between 1.1 and 4.9 million tonnes”
1️⃣🛑🏭”A major challenge in the coming decade will be to identify and implement measures to ensure sustainable and transparent plastic production, restrict the generation of plastic waste, prevent further leakage into the ocean and carefully remediate affected ecosystems.”
2️⃣ ⚪️“the output from a GESAMP international workshop highlighted the importance of the atmospheric transport of #microplastics- and #nanoplastics, and exchanges across the ocean atmosphere interface”
3️⃣ 📈🌊“Since the 1990s, the amount of plastics in the ocean has significantly increased and is trending to continue to increase at a worsening rate, which will result in impacts that are beyond the safe operating space for humanity.”
4️⃣ 🔎”Global mechanisms to track the extent and distribution of nutrient and #plasticpollution in our oceans are urgently required to support mitigation and adaptation strategies”
5️⃣”Export of plastic waste can exacerbate the problem for the receiving countries, increasing the risk to marginalized and vulnerable communities.”
6️⃣ “Sustained, comprehensive and global actions are needed to reduce the generation of plastic waste and prevent unavoidable plastic waste from leaking into the environment. Critical examination of effective policy options provides essential input to current negotiations towards an #PlasticsTreaty “
