Environmental multilateralism at risk - where do we go from here?
Johannes Mรผller, Ocean Policy Expert, OceanCare Johannes is currently undertaking his doctoral studies at the University of St. Andrews and continues to support measures aimed at mitigating underwater noise and reducing the impact of plastic pollution at OceanCare. As the world’s largest decision-making body on the Environment, the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) is tasked with finding solutions to global environmental problems. From the 11 th to 15 th of March 2019 delegates, civil society representatives and other stakeholders came together in Nairobi to negotiate all outstanding resolutions, ranging from sustainable consumption to marine litter and microplastics, as well as single-use plastic. It is unfortunate that national agendas have hampered the adoption of progressive resolutions on an issue that is already recognised as a threat to the global environment. The prospect of a legally binding convention on plastic pollution was also pushed further into dist...