Jonathan Cocker will join colleagues from the IBA’s Environmental Health and Safety Committee and present the sustainability initiatives of the IBA in an open meeting on Thursday September 3, 2020 at 3 PM BST (10 AM ET). Register now
It may have been overlooked in some circles, with much of the plastic waste attention being paid to global initiatives and hot spot regions, but the East African Community, an intergovernmental organization created in 1999 and comprised of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan, with approximately 175 million residents, has already recognized what other regions have been slow to embrace: environmental protection, including the current plastics crisis, is too big for countries to…
Client alert: Canada: Federal Government shortlists eight types of projects for the development of carbon offset protocols — ATTORNEY ADVERTISING Client alert 14 August 2020 Canada: Federal Government shortlists eight types of projects for the development of carbon offset protocols In Brief On July 2, 2020, the Government of Canada released a much-anticipated discussion paper on the proposed Federal Greenhouse Gas Offset System. The paper clarifies how protocols for carbon offset credits will be developed…
The momentum arguably started with words and not actions- namely corporate commitments around energy use reductions as part of a broader sustainability and carbon emissions reduction initiative. Then came the more challenging part – meeting those targets: first with energy efficiency improvements at the facility level and then with the purchase of renewable energy, such as solar, wind and biogas. And the volumes have quickly become staggering, with many brand name companies, from outside…
El artículo de Jonathan Cocker: “Armonizar la estrategia de los plásticos en la Alianza del Pacífico” fue publicado por Environmental Liability – Law, Policy and Practice en el Volumen 26, Número 1.
Jonathan Cocker’s article: “Harmonising plastics strategy across the Pacific Alliance” was published by Environmental Liability – Law, Policy and Practice in Volume 26 Issue 1.
The webinar hosted by the Inter-American Development Bank on Plastics & the Circular Economy Regulation in the Pacific Alliance in Times of COVID-19. is now available : https://youtu.be/RQLYKWyVYok
Plastic pollution, including through single-use plastics (SUPs), continues to plague natural environments around the world, including in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The region produces around 28 million tons of plastic waste every year (12% of total municipal waste), of which around 36% is SUP. It is estimated that about 4 million tons of plastic waste could enter the ocean in 2020 due to inadequate solid waste management in coastal cities, where a significant…
With so many countries and regions committing to some (often indeterminate) form of bioplastic alternative to conventional plastic food packaging, scrutiny as to actual environmental and safety performance offered by these materials has become intense. This has ironically created great uncertainty within the commercial food industry at the exact time that many producers have introduced mandates to switch from conventional plastic packaging. So how does this end? An Aging EU Packaging Standard The principal packaging…
Jonathan Cocker hablará en un seminario web organizado por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo sobre Plásticos y Economía Circular Regulación en tiempos de COVID-19. Los panelistas incluyen Denisa Mertiri, Green Earth Strategy (Canadá); Mariana Herrero S, Galicia (Mexico); Guillermo Tejeiro Gutiérrez, Brigard Urrutia (Colombia); Francisco Tong, Rodrigo Elias & Medrano (Perú); Julio Recordon, Carey (Chile). Sintonice el 22 de julio de 2020 de 11:00 a 12:30 EST. https://zoom.us/J/96906380450