Exploring the Option of a New Global Agreement on Marine Plastic Pollution – A Guide to the Issues

A new global agreement on marine plastic pollution?

4.4 Key considerations for policymakers • Identify the transboundary properties of marine plastic pollution. • Analyse the causal chain of marine plastic pollution and consider disaggregating the problem into more manageable categories. • Assess proposed core provisions with a view to cost-efficiency and ease of implementation. • Consider whether provisions regulating acts or provisions regulating outcome of acts are more likely to effectively and efficiently solve the problem. • Consider how the provisions of the agreement can be formulated so as to allow for the elaboration of more targeted provisions in the future as knowledge increases. • Consider how the institutional structures of the new agreement can be designed so as to generate confidence in compliance, manage asymmetries and capacity restraints, and avoid free riding.

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