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STAP emphasizes the importance of supporting innovation in alternatives to plastics to combat marine debris problem

STAP attended two days of the Seventeenth Meeting of the UN Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (ICP-17) which convened at the UN Headquarters in New York from 13-17 June 2016. The meeting brought together representatives from governments, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, and academic institutions to examine the topic of marine debris, plastics and microplastics.  Lev Neretin, of the STAP Secretariat, and Daniela Russo, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Think Beyond Plastic, addressed the ICP-17 at a side event co-organized by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)... Read More
GEF Science Panel joins the community of transboundary waters practitioners at the 8th GEF biennial international waters conference in Sri Lanka

(Negombo, Sri Lanka) May 15th 2016: The Eighth GEF Biennial International Waters Conference (IWC-8) concludedon May 15th 2016 in Negombo, western Sri Lanka. Participants coming from over 80 countries met at the IWC8 to share lessons from 70... Read More
Planning for resilience in a rapidly changing world - The Resilience Adaptation and Transformation Assessment Framework (RAPTA)

Planning for Resilience in the GEF Program

The concepts of resilience,adaptation and transformationare gaining prominence and being translated into aspirational goals that guide policy development. Understanding resilience,... Read More
Advancing sustainable chemistry in a sustainable development context - Opportunities for global, regional and national chemicals.

STAP Panelist, Ricardo Barra participates in a side event on green chemistry at the United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya (Monday, May 23, 2016)

At an event co-sponsored by the Governments of Germany and Ghana and by UNEP and the Basel-Rotterdam-Stockholm (BRS) Secretariat, STAP expert Dr. Ricardo Barra will speak about sustainable (‘green’) chemistry, and in particular, its potential application to material innovations in the area of replacements for disposable plastic items. His presentation will build on findings from STAP’s ongoing research efforts with the private sector innovation group, Think Beyond Plastic®, as part of the GEF’s contribution to the global effort to  ... Read More
Reducing Black Carbon Can Save Lives and Help Combat Climate Change

Press Release:

Washington, D.C., 19 October 2015 - Black carbon causes millions of deaths every year and contributes to the warming of the planet. In the atmosphere it appears as air pollution, with emissions arising mainly from the combustion of diesel fuel and biofuels, coal-fired power stations, biomass cook stoves, brick kilns and vegetation burning in open fields.

The importance of reducing emissions of black carbon and other short-lived climate pollutants while simultaneously continuing efforts to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions, is the subject of a new advisory document, “Black Carbon Mitigation and the Role of the Global... Read More

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