BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//School of Public Policy and Global Affairs//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sppga.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:School of Public Policy and Global Affairs - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20190116T1557Z-1547654253.2072-EO-29187-5@137.82.45.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260306T072841Z CREATED:20190115T235146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190524T205143Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190130T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190130T140000 SUMMARY: Environmental Impacts of Plastics and Initial Policies for their C ontrol DESCRIPTION: Join our SPPGA Policy in Practice panel discussion on sources of plastics in the environment and policies for their mitigation. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join our SPPGA Policy in Practice panel discussion on sources of plastics in the en vironment and policies for their mitigation. The discussion will be moderat ed by David Boyd\, Associate Professor of Law\, Policy\, and Sustainability at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Institute for Re sources\, Environment\, and Sustainability and currently serving as the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment. Welcome remarks wil l be provided by MPPGA student Denby McDonnell.

*Watch the video of this event on the S chool of Public Policy and Global Affairs Facebook page.

The topics and panelists are:

Plastics Futures: modelling the impact of mitigation strat egies for reducing plastic pollution to evaluate their effectiveness for re ducing plastic emissions to the environment.

Stephanie Borrelle is a David H. Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Her cur rent research applies ecological population modelling techniques to evaluat e how different mitigation strategies contribute to reducing plastic enteri ng the world’s oceans. Stephanie is based at the University of Toronto in t he Rochman Lab\, and affiliated with Ocean Conservancy and the University o f Georgia in the Jambeck Research Group.

Relating Policies to Mitigate Plastics Discharge to Plastics Observed in the Environment: Investigating how the metrics and categories used by citiz en science groups to record plastic debris collection results at shoreline cleanup events in British Columbia (BC) relate to those used by the provinc ial government and industry to track the performance of Extended Producer R esponsibility (EPR) policy for packaging waste.

Lucas Harris is a Senior Policy Analyst\, Extend ed Producer Responsibility with the BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy and a MA Candidate in Geography at Memorial University of N ewfoundland.

The EU Single-Use Plastics (SUP) Directive. Describing the Directive\, policy work and process that l ed to the EU ratification of measures to mitigate the discharge of plastics to the environment.

Dominic H ogg\, has more than twenty five years’ experience in the field of the environment as an academic\, campaigner and consultant. He is the found ing Director of Eunomia. His work ranges from policy and strategic studies through to due diligence for funding organizations. He is renowned for cros s-disciplinary\, policy-relevant studies of strategic\, economic and enviro nmental significance.

Policies to Drive a Circular Economy for Plastics. Defining a circular economy for plastics\ , the barriers to circularity in a market economy with a fossil based petro -chemical sector and policy measures that will lead to increased use of ren ewable plastic chemistries and reuse and recycling of plastics in Canada.

Usman Valiante is a se nior policy analyst and commercial strategist with 27 years of experience i n the fields of environmental science and economics\, corporate and commerc ial strategy\, public policy development\, regulatory and institutional des ign\, advocacy\, negotiation\, consultation and communications.

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