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What's Next?

Spotlighting the undercounted, significant, and growing climate impacts of plastics

by sharing the story, spurring the science, and influencing policy.

This is our focus now.

 

Now that we have illuminated the state of the science, we are sharing the story of the links between plastics and climate change, and the fact that the climate impacts are undercounted, significant, and growing.

 

We continue to communicate our findings and recommendations to scientists, policymakers, advocates, industry, investors, and educators. We are pushing for the scientific community to undertake critical research and data generation to ultimately be able to determine plastics' contribution to global temperature rise. We are collaborating with colleagues to ensure that plastics' climate impacts are incorporated into climate models, accounting and reporting, and in policies from the local to the international levels, including multilateral agreements.

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A key event will be an international experts meeting in 2027 on the climate impacts of plastics. Chatham House will co-host, among others. Partners to date include the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change, Planet Tracker, and the Carbon Disclosure Project/Plastic Disclosure Project. Goals are to:

 

  • Gather researchers to update the state of the science, understand who is doing what, and coordinate on the research agenda to fill in data gaps

  • Create a researcher network

  • Launch development of accounting for & reporting on the uncounted impacts, i.e, for the Paris Agreement

  • Attract attention to the issue and affect policy​​

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