The first would be harmonizing collection methods and reporting metrics the second would be coordinating investment approaches to support infrastructure development and keep market innovations which include building a platform that Minderoo Foundation is building the third one is to make this a big tent inclusive effort through leveraging the role of participatory education. “I think there are three main things we could do to push the ball forward as far as creating data and better understanding this issue. “A major obstacle to effectively addressing this issue is that most information available about ocean plastic pollution is based on theoretical estimates rather than observed data.” And the type of impact that we want to be able to measure our success against is-for example-being able to inform enforcement because we will be able to tell you in near-real time where there are some of those illegal, informal plastic waste dumpings all over the world.” Grayson Shor (U.S. “The goal here is to use all those data, bring them together in a data-driven decision support tool to essentially allow us to track from production, all the way to pollution. “We use satellite imagery because we know that it is a low-cost, credible, consistent and globally comparable source of information and so the theory is that if we can detect plastic in a particular place here in Indonesia and stop it before it gets into the ocean, that’s an approach that we believe is completely scalable.” The plastic is then left to go and severely impact marine wildlife-we’re talking about like 100,000 marine mammals being killed every single year and over a million seaweed getting poisoned by plastic being in the ocean.” “Of course we know that once the plastic is in the ocean, the battle is essentially lost because plastic ends up in places where it is almost nearly impossible to clean up. Now we are able to look at it with greater efficiency and greater meaning because I believe that what Minderoo is going to do is…an absolute game changer.” Fabien Laurier (Minderoo Foundation) “I really hope this work can serve as a platform for other people to take it forward and do great things based on it. This is a democratizer and this is an issue that we all need to look at together.” If we don’t work together, we will not be able to solve the plastic pollution problem. The Elbe river in Germany emits 800 tons of plastic into the North Sea every year. I found plastics just as easy in Canada as I did in Vietnam. “Plastic is not a developing world problem, it’s not a Southeast Asian problem. Selected Quotes Lauren Bierman (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) They shared their stories and discuss their work to harness the latest advances in remote sensing satellites and artificial intelligence to enable continuous, near real-time global monitoring of plastic pollution on land and at sea, as well as the impact this work and similar initiatives could have in the fight to reduce plastic marine debris. This meeting featured 5 speakers who are members of the technical committee responsible for guiding the development of the Minderoo Foundation-supported Global Plastics Watch platform. Understanding the true extent of plastic pollution and its impacts requires reliable and scalable ways of collecting data. Analyses from plastic industry and scientific literature vary greatly, resulting in large uncertainties and frequent inconsistencies on the scale and flow of plastic pollution. The plastic leakage problem is big, but most statistics like these on plastic pollution in the ocean are based on theoretical estimates or fragmented sources rather than observed data.
Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition.Science and Technology Innovation Program.
The Middle East and North Africa Workforce Development Initiative.Kissinger Institute on China and the United States.Nuclear Proliferation International History Project.North Korea International Documentation Project.Environmental Change and Security Program.Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy.
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