CLIMA Lunch Seminar with Tara Olsen

Plastics not so fantastic? A new legally binding instrument to combat plastic pollution

Abstract
In 2022, the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA) adopted resolution 5/14, giving mandate to UN Member States to start negotiations toward an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution. This seminar delves into the negotiation process and provides insights on the current state of affairs as we digest the last two years of negotiations following the last round of negotiations in Busan (South Korea) in November 2024 where States failed to adopt a new legally binding treaty.


About the speaker

Tara Olsen has an interdisciplinary background, having first studied a bachelor's in politics, psychology, law and economics at the University of Amsterdam, followed by a Joint Nordic Masters in Environmental Law at three Nordic Universities (Uppsala University, University of Eastern Finland and the UiT - Arctic University of Norway). Tara just started her PhD at the University of Copenhagen, in the department of Food and Resource Economics, and her project focuses on analysing policy mixes in hard to abate industries in the Scandinavian countries. Prior to starting her PhD, Tara was a research assistant at Lund University, working on a project which mapped the position of states involved in the Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations. Through this project, she has attended three out of the five negotiation rounds for the Global Plastics Treaty and is a member of the Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty.

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Time: 21 March 2025: 12:00 - 13:00

Venue: Room 6B.4.04, and online via zoom (link provided upon registration) at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.