Global Plastics Outlook : Policy Scenarios to 2060 / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development..

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environment.

Local Subjects:

Environment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages)

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2022.

Summary:

The global community is far from achieving its objective of ending plastic pollution, unless more stringent and co-ordinated policies are implemented. A key question is: What are the plausible scenarios for the evolution of plastics in the absence of additional measures and, as well, with scaled-up policy action? The Global Plastics Outlook: Policy Scenarios to 2060 provides such a forward-looking perspective. The report presents a set of coherent projections on plastics to 2060, including plastics use, waste as well as the environmental impacts linked to plastics, especially leakage to the environment. Such an outlook on plastics can help policy makers understand the scale of the challenge to transition to a more sustainable and circular use of plastics and the need for additional policy action. By identifying two policy packages to bend the plastic curve, the Outlook allows for a better understanding of the environmental benefits and economic consequences of adopting stringent policies. This second report is a follow-up to the first report - Global Plastics Outlook: Economic Drivers, Environmental Impacts and Policy Options - which quantified current trends in plastics use, waste generation and leakage, as well as identified four policy levers to curb the environmental impacts of plastics.

Contents:

Plastics use projections to 2060

The Global Ambition policy scenario

Overview and policy highlights

Projections of the environmental impacts of the plastics lifecycle to 2060

Modelling framework

Projections of plastic leakage to the environment to 2060

Foreword

Abbreviations and acronyms

The Regional Action policy scenario

Executive summary

Preface

Plastic waste projections to 2060

Interactions between plastics and climate mitigation policies

Glossary

Details on the Baseline, Regional Action, Global Ambition, and Climate Mitigation scenarios

Economic projections to 2060.

ISBN:

9789264832022

9789264898813

9789264667648

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