“CAPacity” to Act: Reducing Plastic Pollution through Capacity Development

Join PREVENT and IUCN for this exciting on-site event in Geneva for INC 5.2.!

 
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“CAPacity” to Act: Reducing Plastic Pollution through Capacity Development
🗓️ Friday, 8th August, 18:00 – 21:30
📍 On-site | International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum: Avenue de la Paix 17, 1202 Geneva 

This event will highlight case studies of successful capacity building approaches and discuss how these tools and approaches can be used: to implement measures that contribute towards treaty ambitions and to foster partnerships and cooperation between PREVENT members.

Boost your knowledge & network while you discover:

• Practical tools & case studies designed to support measures discussed at INC5.2
• Impactful capacity building approaches to solving plastic pollution
• Lessons & needs for effective multi-stakeholder approaches
• A dynamic networking session highlighting potential partnerships

Agenda

Registration and admittance (18.00 – 18.30hrs)

PART 1: Welcome and Input (18.30 – 20.00hrs)
Opening remarks, Capacity Building Approaches, Tools Overview and Panel Discussion on lessons, needs, and opportunities

PART 2: Networking and Learning (20.00 – 21.30hrs)
Participants are free to move between stations at their own pace, each station operates continuously with informal demonstrations and discussion

Topic Stations:

Upstream solutions: Willemijn Peeters (Searious Business), Anabella Palacios (IUCN), Laura Griestop (WWF), Andrea Cino (WRAP)
Action planning and roadmaps: Margherita Pucino (WEF – GPAP), Charlotte Davies (Common Seas), Thomas Maes and Clever Mafuta (GRID-Arendal)
Extended Producer Responsibility Schemes: Peter Borkey (OECD), Jonas Barkhau, (PREVENT)
Digital AI powered approaches: SPOT Model, Costas Velis (Imperial College) GIZ Data Lab (negotiateAI)
Innovative financing – plastic credits: Stephanie Beitien (PCX), and others from PREVENT on plastics credits
Protecting biodiversity: Karine Siegwart (IUCN), Alexandra Harrington (IUCN WCEL)
Social inclusion: Lynn Sorrentino (IUCN), Jean-Christophe Laugee (InclusEO), John Chweya, Kenya

Find the full, detailed agenda here.

Please note: Admission to the event is highly dependent on room capacity – in the unlikely case that registrations will vastly outnumber the boundaries of the premises, we will let you know well in advance. Registration is closed – you will be granted admittance if you are on our list of registrants.