Each World Environment Day focuses attention on a particularly pressing environmental concern. This year, it is plastic. India is the global host of 2018 World Environment Day, 5 June, and ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’, the theme. The world will come together to combat single-use plastic pollution, and urge governments, industry, communities, and individuals to explore sustainable alternatives, and urgently reduce the production and excessive use of single-use plastic pollution in our oceans, damaging marine life and threatening human health.

Click HERE to visit the official website and watch the World Environment Day video.

The Women’s Major Group, NGO Major Group and undersigned organisations, delivered a joint positioning statement on marine litter and microplastics, following a request in which the UN Environment Program sought responses to three main questions:

• Major barriers to combating marine litter and microplastics;
• Potential Response options and associated environmental, social and economic costs;
• Feasibility and effectiveness of different response options.

You can read the positioning statement here.