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Ahmed Senhoury, Director of the Regional Partnership for Coastal and Marine Conservation
Auteur: WACA Program
Ahmed Senhoury, Director of the The Regional Partnership for Coastal and Marine Conservation (PRCM) answers to the following question: What concrete actions for coastal resilience?
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Ahmed Senhoury, directeur du partenariat régional pour la conservation de la zone côtière et marine (PRCM)
Auteur: WACA Program
Ahmed Senhoury, Directeur du partenariat régional pour la conservation de la zone côtière et marine (PRCM) répond à la question suivante : Quelles actions concrètes pour la résilience des côtes ?
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Official Presentation of the Transport Equipment by WACA
Auteur: WACA Program
The official presentation of the transport equipment to the partner structures of the WACA project, on 05/08/2021.
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La cérémonie officielle des matériels roulants.
Auteur: WACA Program
la cérémonie officielle des matériels roulants aux structures partenaires du projet WACA, ce 05/08/2021.
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São Tome e Príncipe: WACA Promotes Safe Port Operations
Auteur: WACA Sao Tome
Safety and profit are crucial in ports operations. In São Tome e Príncipe, WACA is boosting the capacity of the National Meteorological Institute of São Tomé e Príncipe (INM-STP) to provide to ports up-to-date meteorological services to reduce risks.
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A Roadmap for Radical Reduction of Plastic Pollution in Ghana
Auteur: Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership
The impacts of plastic production, use and disposal on the environment and society present a number of challenges along the plastic value chain.
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Gender Analysis of the Plastics and Plastic Waste Sectors in Ghana
Auteur: Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership
In the last three decades, Ghana, like many of its neighbouring countries, has been challenged with the exponential growth of plastics use, coupled with its alarming mismanagement.
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What a Waste 2.0 A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050
Auteur: Silpa Kaza, Lisa Yao, Perinaz Bhada-Tata, and Frank Van Woerden
Solid waste management is a universal issue affecting every single person in the world. Individuals and governments make decisions about consumption and waste management that affect the daily health, productivity, and cleanliness of communities.
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Unlocking the Plastics Circular Economy: A Toolkit for Investment
Auteur: Global Plastic Action Partnership
It is estimated that, without significant action, 29 million tonnes of plastics will flow into the ocean every year by 2040.
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Unlocking the Plastics Circular Economy: A Toolkit for Investment
Auteur: Global Plastic Action Partnership
It is estimated that, without significant action, 29 million tonnes of plastics will flow into the ocean every year by 2040.
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Policies to Reduce Single-Use Plastic Marine Pollution in West Africa
Auteur: IssahakuAdama, Tony RobertWalker b, Joana CarlosBezerra c, Andrea Clayton
Countries in Africa are increasingly adopting policies to reduce single-use plastic (SUP) pollution, yet there has been limited analysis of policies adopted by African countries. This paper reviews SUP reduction policies, specifically in West Africa.
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National Guidance for Plastic Pollution Hotspotting and Shaping Action
Auteur: Julien Boucher; Melissa Zgola; Xun Liao; Anna Kounina; Guillaume Billard; Paola Paruta; Alexandre Bouchet; EA – Shaping Environmental Action; Quantis International
Plastic pollution is a key environmental challenge that has received significant public attention in recent years. While it is often attributed to a “take-make-dispose” economic model, plastic leakage is a complex issue with multiple sources and actors involved. Addressing this challenge requires all stakeholders joining forces to intervene at various levels.
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Future scenarios of global plastic waste generation and disposal
Auteur: Laurent Lebreton, & Anthony Andrady
The accumulation of mismanaged plastic waste (MPW) in the environment is a global growing concern. Knowing with precision where litter is generated is important to target priority areas for the implementation of mitigation policies.
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A global mass budget for positively buoyant macroplastic debris in the ocean
Auteur: Laurent Lebreton, Matthias Egger & Boyan Slat
Since mass production of synthetic polymers started in the 1950s, plastic waste has been accumulating and degrading in terrestrial and oceanic environments.
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Preventing and managing marine litter in west, central and southern Africa
Auteur: UNEP, Abidjan Convention and GRID-Arendal (2020)
West Africa’s contribution to Africa´s GDP growth has increased over the last few years—from below 7 percent in 2016 to more than 28 percent in the last two years (African Development Bank 2020).