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Artwork for World Ocean Day for Schools of Edwin, clean seas educator based in Liberia

As diverse as the ocean itself, blue careers took the spotlight on World Ocean Day for Schools

Grou of government and NGO officials around a while clothed table, with charts and large paper making group notes

Bridging the gap: scaling policy implementation support in SIDS with new UK International Development funding

Faryal Gohar at launch of National Action Plan to Tackle Plastic Pollution in Tuvalu

In Tuvalu, I saw how tackling plastic pollution is more important than ever

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Announcing plastic policy plans and reports with five Small Island States

Saint Lucia workshop - Five Saint Lucians at the workshop celebrating its success. A man and a woman are shaking hands and smiling. Another three people are in the group. All stand in a room with while walls.

Common Seas supports SIDS’ next steps to future freed from plastic with new FCDO funding

Civil society mobilisation plastics treaty - group of demonstrators at the Place des Nations in Geneva. Demonstrators hold placards that positioned together form a giant speech bubble reading 'cut plastic production, don't fuel our destruction, strong treaty now/'. The Broken Chair is visible in the background against a deep blue sky.

Cut plastic, not corners: civil society’s calls to action at treaty negotiations

Common Seas team at INC5.2 - team at the World Economic Forum headquarters overlooking Lake Geneva

Collaboration, capacity building and courage: Reflections from our time at INC5.2

Delegate from Mexico makes a speech at the closing plenary of INC5 in Busan. In the foreground is the crowd, and on the screen is the blue INC sign and a shot of the delegate, wearing a light top and a light fluffy bucket hat.

The INC-5 plastics treaty talks ended without a treaty. What’s next?

Fish-shaped rubbish cage on a beach in Barbados

Small countries, big impact: Why the plastics treaty must address the needs of Small Island Developing States