L’environnement juridique de la lutte contre la pollution par les plastiques en Asie du Sud-Est (ASEAN)
With a population of 681 million in 2022, Southeast Asia is the region most affected by marine plastic pollution, for geographical, demographic and climatic reasons. 20% of the world’s plastic production is generated in Southeast Asia. 53% of the waste generated in the countries of the Association o...
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| Language: | English |
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Université de Provence
2024-12-01
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| Series: | Moussons |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/moussons/12040 |
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| Summary: | With a population of 681 million in 2022, Southeast Asia is the region most affected by marine plastic pollution, for geographical, demographic and climatic reasons. 20% of the world’s plastic production is generated in Southeast Asia. 53% of the waste generated in the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the region’s intergovernmental organization, is currently not collected. It is therefore crucial for these countries to legislate, regulate and equip themselves with specialized capacities, institutions and infrastructures to fight the scourge of plastic pollution and debris as effectively as possible. As early as 2005, ASEAN mobilized to provide its member states with guidelines, recommendations and best practices in this field. On the normative level, it operates by producing mainly soft law texts. However, on a national legal and political level, each member state acts in its own way and at its own speed, applying its own agenda, with Indonesia standing out from its neighbors for its regulatory initiatives. External aid is the key to securing funding, which is sorely lacking in most of these developing countries. For the time being, it seems difficult to see how the ASEAN countries can optimize their cooperation, despite the fact that most of them have ratified multilateral treaties applicable in our field study. |
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| ISSN: | 1620-3224 2262-8363 |