As governments and stakeholders gather in Geneva for the resumed fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC 5.2)(https://lnkd.in/d57eSgYg), a new report to be published in the Lancet will offer an up-to-date assessment of the links between health and plastic pollution across the full life cycle of plastics, and announces the launch of an independent, health-focused global monitoring system on plastics: The Lancet Countdown on Health and Plastics.
More details and registration: https://lnkd.in/d32T8MCq
What is The Lancet Countdown on Health and Plastics?
Coincident with the expected finalization of the global plastics treaty, The Lancet is launching an independent, health-focused global monitoring system on plastics: The Lancet Countdown on Health and Plastics. This new Countdown is inspired by the model and impact of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change (https://lnkd.in/dut__hwF). Through its publications, the Health and Climate Change Countdown has moved consideration of climate change’s health impacts to the mainstream of the climate conversation, and played a key role in the decision to incorporate an explicit focus on human health into the annual climate negotiations, beginning with COP 28.
Hei-Planet Director Prof. Dr. Joacim Rocklöv will be Co-Chair of the new countdown along with his colleague Prof Philip Landrigan, MD, a paediatrician and epidemiologist, Director of the Global Observatory on Planetary Health at Boston College.
