• Identifying ways to improve the understanding of global trade in plastics, including flows of plastics embedded in internationally traded goods or associated with them (such as plastic packaging), and enhance transparency regarding trade policies relevant to reducing plastic pollution and more environmentally sustainable plastics trade. • Sharing experiences of effective approaches to move towards more circular, resource efficient and environmentally sustainable plastics trade. • Addressing trade-related capacity building and technical assistance needs of developing members, in particular least developed members and vulnerable SIDS, to support their efforts to:
• move towards more circular plastics economies;
• improve the environmentally sound management, recovery and recycling of plastics;
• facilitate access to key technologies;
• expand trade in environmentally sustainable and effective substitutes and alternatives;
• encourage collaboration with the relevant stakeholders through, inter alia, the exchange of knowledge and experience relating to the development of and access to environmentally sustainable and effective (including cost and functionally effective) substitutes and alternatives to single-use plastics;
• develop and strengthen local capacities to produce environmentally sustainable and effective substitutes and alternatives to single-use plastics; and
• design and implement trade policies to address plastic pollution.
• Considering plastic pollution and environmentally sustainable plastics trade in Aid for Trade with environmentally sustainable objectives.