The Plastics & Climate Project
Identifying the data gaps to account for all the climate impacts of plastics
Advisory Board
The Plastics & Climate Project benefits from the input of advisory board members who ensure the scientific integrity of the Project's work, and provide strategic advice. The Advisory Board also enables people and institutions engaged in complementary issues to add value to each other's work. Members include individuals and representatives of organizations (non-governmental, and research and policy agencies and institutions) conducting relevant research, policy, and community work. Founding members to date include:
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Aarthi Ananthanarayanan - former Climate & Plastics Initiative Director, Ocean Conservancy
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Jo Banner - Co-Founder & Co-Director, the Descendants Project, an organization dedicated to preserving and improving the health, land, economy, and lives of the Black descendant community in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley"
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Dr. Dan Lashof - U.S. Director, World Resources Institute (WRI)
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Dr. Kara Lavender Law - Research professor of oceanography, Sea Education Association; research areas include ocean circulation, distribution of marine plastic debris, and degradation and fate of plastics in the ocean
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Dr. Karen Raubenheimer - Key architect of the UN global plastics treaty research and proposal, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources & Security, University of Wollongong; co-author Climate Impact of Plastics, GRID-Arendal, 2024
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Dr. Sarah-Jeanne Royer - Oceanographer, research scientist at the Center for Marine Debris Research at Hawaii Pacific University; one of the first scientists to discover that plastic emits greenhouse gases when exposed to sunlight