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The report takes stock of the extent of knowledge on plastics in the marine environment: key sources and locations of these plastics, and an analysis of the problematic products and polymers making up marine plastics and micro-plastics. It also summarizes existing policy responses.  

The report identifies gaps to address marine plastics at each value chain stage and recommends actions to be taken in priority sectors by different stakeholders to achieve a circular economy for plastics at the global level.    

The document provides an action-oriented strategy by identifying a core set of priority solutions to be implemented by targeted stakeholders under different time horizons, and at different geographical scales – to reduce the leakage of plastics into the environment and its associated impacts.  

Part I of the Global Chemicals Outlook II presents existing and emerging economic and scientific knowledge and, where possible, trends regarding a range of topics of relevance for chemicals and waste management.    

The report aims to map the textile value chain to identify key environmental and socio-economic impacts along the value chain, takes stock of existing initiatives working to address them, and identifies priority actions to move towards more sustainability and circularity.  

Building on the Global Initiative for Resource-Efficient Cities (GI-REC) which applies integrated approaches and analyses such as urban metabolism in city planning and management, the report provides guidance on the transition of cities from a linear to a circular economy.  

The report aims to provide recommendations on the opportunities available to consumers, private sector and especially governments, of developed and developing economies, to fight against planned obsolescence and address product lifetime extension.  

The manual introduces a methodology for the implementation of eco-innovation within SMEs in developing and emerging economies, to inform, guide and support manufacturing companies to improve their sustainability performance as a strategy for developing new business models.  

The report connects the potential for resource efficiency, via circular economy and the processes that retain product value within the systems. It is one of the first to quantify the current-state and potential impacts associated with the inclusion of value-retention processes within industrial economic systems.  

The document intends to inform dialogues on how best to bring more circularity in our economies at global level; it is addressed to both public procurers and policy makers, as well as corporate buyers and business leaders.