SDG 14: Stepping up international efforts to tackle ocean plastic pollution / Jivan Dasgupta.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Dasgupta, Jivan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drugs Crime and Terrorism.

Economic and Social Development.

Children and Youth.

Local Subjects:

Drugs Crime and Terrorism.

Economic and Social Development.

Children and Youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (6 pages)

Contained In:

Freedom from Fear Vol. 2018, no. 15, p. 74-79 2018:15<74 25190709

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2020.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Eight to twelve million tons of plastics end up in the oceans every year. One of the targets of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), Goal 14 on life below water, calls upon states to prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris, by 2025. Following China's ban of all imports of non-industrial plastic wastes in 2018, exports of plastic wastes by high-income countries have shifted to South East Asian countries putting unbearable stress on their waste management systems. Despite worldwide attention devoted to the ocean plastics crisis, these practices are likely to aggravate the problem. It shows that current efforts are not sufficient to achieve the SDG target 14 for marine plastic litter and microplastics.

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Title from title screen (viewed May 1, 2017).

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