A Greenpeace plastics campaigner says indigenous voices need to be head in the effort to reach a global plastics treaty by 2024.
Juressa Lee virtually attended the first round of treaty talks virtually.
She says indigenous communities, island nations and coastal communities probably contribute to the plastic crisis and the climate crisis the least but feel their effects the most..
“They’re already living mindfully with our environment so their world view on how to live mindfully with the environment and their lived experience living on the front line to those crises are necessary in understanding he true scale of the problem and findingthose solutions. Those voices need to be centred at the negotiating table,” Ms Lee says.
She says new research showing the huge volume of microplastics in Auckland’s air brings home the extend of the plastics crisis.
