The overall objective is to foster networking and exchange of knowledge and coordination amongst the experts of the many different disciplines that have a bearing on plastic pollution.
The need for complex integrated monitoring and for prioritizing actions for combatting plastic pollution, make it clear that an interdisciplinary and cross-border approach is required for improving environmental assessments, source identification and solution development to tackle the problem. Additionally the network could support the work on marine litter and microplastics that the Arctic Council working groups for the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) and the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) are pursuing.
Thematic Network Lead: Roger B. Larsen
Thematic Network Vice-Lead: Helene Svendsen
Video interview: Anna Sinisalo, former Lead of the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Plastic Pollution
