Kristin Hughes, director of the Global Plastic Action Partnership, a multistakeholder initiative coordinated by the World Economic Forum, talks with Ian Welsh about the partnership’s work over the past 12 months coordinating government and brand approaches and desire to do something effective.
Hughes explains why the partnership is focusing efforts in southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa developing waste collection and recycling infrastructure, and paths to a circular economy approach.
Weekly podcast: Incentives to improve inadequate waste infrastructure in west Africa
Optimised guidelines to reduce deforestation and land conversion impacts
Weekly podcast: What does landscape approach delivery actually look like?
Packaging decarbonisation: what are the incentives to drive success?
Remote-sensing innovations for net-zero and nature-positive supply chains
Weekly podcast: Why brands need to commit to farmer incomes
Transforming supply chains in India through regenerative agriculture
Voices from the farm: Priorities, challenges and aspirations for sustainable transformation
How Nestlé advocates for effective climate action
Weekly podcast: Delivering successful landscape outcomes for Indonesia’s forests
How REDD+ is saving Cambodia’s forests: Southern Cardamom REDD+ project
Farmer focus: Cargill’s collaboration for restoration in Brazil
Weekly podcast: Packaging’s carbon impacts unpacked
Progress on deforestation: where are the chinks of light?
Weekly podcast: Get to grips with deforestation and land conversion impacts: a how-to guide
What do we really mean by net zero?
Circular by design: How apparel brands can make informed choices
Weekly podcast: What an effective vertical food supply chain looks like
A how-to guide for a deforestation-free palm oil supply chain
Weekly podcast: Nestlé’s road to a collaborative net-zero strategy
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