Report
Plastics: Exposing their climate impacts - what we know, what we need to know, & recommendations for research & policy
This report summarizes our peer-reviewed Frontiers in Environmental Science paper for non-technical audiences.
Authors: Holly Kaufman, Dr. Alice (Xia) Zhu, and the Environmental Law Institute (Cecilia Diedrich and Dr. John Doherty), with key input from the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Dr. Karen Raubenheimer, University of Wollongong, Australia; edited by Dave Grossman.
Papers
The knowns and unknowns in our understanding of how plastics impact climate change: a systematic review
Frontiers in Environmental Science
This is the first paper to comprehensively examine what the science tells us about the scope of plastics' climate impacts. It analyzes the existing peer-reviewed data, identifies critical data gaps, presents a roadmap for continued research, and recommends policies and actions to support that research and to include plastics’ climate impacts in relevant models, scenarios, accounting, and analyses.
Authors: Dr. Alice (Xia) Zhu, Justin Konik, and Holly Kaufman
Policy Briefs
Including the Undercounted Climate Impacts of Plastics
in the UN Climate Regime
Briefer for COP 31
Authors: The Plastics & Climate Project
Contributors: The Environmental Law Institute (Cecilia Diedrich, Dr. John Doherty); The Monterey Bay Aquarium (Eleanore Humphries, Margaret Spring); Alice McGown, Leave it in the Ground (LINGO); Dave Grossman, Green Light Group; Dr. Karen Raubenheimer, University of Wollongong, Australia; Espen Ronneberg, Pacific Community; Anthony Talouli, Secretariat of the Pacific Environment Programme.
