Global Plastics Outlook
Policy Scenarios to 2060
The global community is far from achieving its objective of ending plastic pollution, unless more stringent and co-ordinated policies are implemented. A key question is: What are the plausible scenarios for the evolution of plastics in the absence of additional measures and, as well, with scaled-up policy action? The Global Plastics Outlook: Policy Scenarios to 2060 provides such a forward-looking perspective. The report presents a set of coherent projections on plastics to 2060, including plastics use, waste as well as the environmental impacts linked to plastics, especially leakage to the environment. Such an outlook on plastics can help policy makers understand the scale of the challenge to transition to a more sustainable and circular use of plastics and the need for additional policy action. By identifying two policy packages to bend the plastic curve, the Outlook allows for a better understanding of the environmental benefits and economic consequences of adopting stringent policies. This second report is a follow-up to the first report – Global Plastics Outlook: Economic Drivers, Environmental Impacts and Policy Options – which quantified current trends in plastics use, waste generation and leakage, as well as identified four policy levers to curb the environmental impacts of plastics.
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Details on the Baseline, Regional Action, Global Ambition, and Climate Mitigation scenarios
This Annex presents the details on (i) the incorporation of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated government response measures in the Baseline scenario, (ii) the quantification of the various policy instruments in the Regional Action and Global Ambition plastics scenarios, and (iii) the climate change mitigation scenario.
Also available in: French
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