Recommendation: “The human face of the UN plastics treaty”? The role of waste pickers in intergovernmental negotiations to end plastic pollution and ensure a just transition — R0/PR2

Опубликована: Март 7, 2024

Waste pickers are recognised as a key stakeholder in the ongoing negotiations towards an international legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution. Up 34 million waste contribute recovering close 60% of recycled post-consumer globally. The International Alliance Pickers (IAWP) has actively engaged safeguard just transition for these important but vulnerable and frequently overlooked workers. This article explores how IAWP gained prominence plastics treaty through three iterative processes. First, reiterative naming "waste pickers" constituted symbolic practice discursive influence that heightened recognition pickers' role knowledge rights holders Second, performative dimension picker advocacy influenced official informal events. Third, by engaging "scale work", have leveraged their alliances work across national, regional levels. By examining frames naming, performance scale, contributes advance scholarly literature on grassroots movements global environmental governance (GEG).

Язык: Английский

Author comment: “The human face of the UN plastics treaty”? The role of waste pickers in intergovernmental negotiations to end plastic pollution and ensure a just transition — R0/PR1

Опубликована: Фев. 7, 2024

Waste pickers are recognised as a key stakeholder in the ongoing negotiations towards an international legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution. Up 34 million waste contribute recovering close 60% of recycled post-consumer globally. The International Alliance Pickers (IAWP) has actively engaged safeguard just transition for these important but vulnerable and frequently overlooked workers. This article explores how IAWP gained prominence plastics treaty through three iterative processes. First, reiterative naming "waste pickers" constituted symbolic practice discursive influence that heightened recognition pickers' role knowledge rights holders Second, performative dimension picker advocacy influenced official informal events. Third, by engaging "scale work", have leveraged their alliances work across national, regional levels. By examining frames naming, performance scale, contributes advance scholarly literature on grassroots movements global environmental governance (GEG).

Язык: Английский

Standoff at the four-way stop sign: late-night diplomacy at the fourth session of negotiations (INC-4) on the global treaty to end plastic pollution

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Дек. 20, 2024

Язык: Английский