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Closing the Loop: Scaling up Innovation to Tackle Marine Plastic Pollution in ASEAN Cities

  • Category:

    Project

  • Keyword:

    marine litter, innovation

  • Stage:

    2020 - 2021

  • National Partners:

    MONRE-DONREWorking Group on Environmentally Sustainable Cities (AWGESC)Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), IUCN Viet Nam

  • International Partners:

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)ASEAN Senior Officials on the Environment (ASOEN)ASEAN Working Group on Coastal and Marine Environment (AWGCME) and ASEAN

  • Contact

    Ms Janet Salem, Janet.Salem@un.org, Economic Affairs Officer, UNESCAP, Bangkok, Thailand; Mr. Pham Ngoc Bao, ngoc-bao@iges.or.jp, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, IGES, Japan.

Brief Innovation

Closing the Loop requires an innovation-led response to first understand the scale and nature of the problem. And second, to build the capacity of ASEAN cities to plan for and manage their plastic waste using circular economy principles. The project has two broad objectives: To develop an innovative digital tool to help local governments monitor and visualize plastic waste leakages and to map waste generation hot spots with a view to directing targeted actions to improve their management; and To apply the digital tool in 4 ASEAN cities (across a coastal basin or watershed area) to develop targeted action plans, policies, and investment strategies to address plastic waste leakages.

Overview

Category: Project
Keyword: marine litter, innovation
Donner:

The government of Japan
National Partners: MONRE-DONREWorking Group on Environmentally Sustainable Cities (AWGESC)Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), IUCN Viet Nam
International Partners: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)ASEAN Senior Officials on the Environment (ASOEN)ASEAN Working Group on Coastal and Marine Environment (AWGCME) and ASEAN
Location(s) in Vietnam: Quang Nam (Da Nang, Hoi An)
Location(s) in Other countries: Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur / Klang River watershed),Indonesia (Surabaya / Kalimas River watershed),Thailand ( Nakhon Si Thammarat / Tapi River watershed)
Stage: 2020 - 2021
Total budget: USD 1,179,720

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Metrics/ diagnostics

Innovation

Policy advice

Capacity building

Investment/ financing

Public awareness/ outreach

Private sector development

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