Christina Dixon

Christina Dixon is the Ocean Campaign Leader at the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), responsible for overseeing a team of legal, campaigning and policy experts working on various multilateral, regional and national policy processes related to ocean and plastics governance. Having worked for EIA during the ad-hoc open-ended expert working group process, multiple UNEA sessions and now the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, Christina has a deep knowledge of the plastics treaty process, geopolitics and stakeholders involved. Her particular areas of focus are supply and demand side measures for reducing the environmental and human health impacts of plastic production and consumption.

Dixon has more than 15 years of experience driving change through policy and strategic communication. Prior to working at EIA, Christina helped establish the Global Ghost Gear Initiative, a cross-sectoral initiative aimed at addressing abandoned, lost and otherwise discarded fishing gear. She was also the Global Campaign Leader at the World Animal Protection.

Christina holds an MA with distinction from Goldsmiths College, London, and a BA in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Leeds.

Click the ‘Listen’ button below to hear Dominic Bowen with Alexandra Harrington and Christina Dixon talk about the collapse of the UN Plastic Treaty negotiations in August: What happened? Why did the talks end in deadlock? Was it a failure or is there still room for cautious optimism? Click ‘Read’ for a deeper analysis of the consensus mechanism used in the UN Plastic Treaty talks: how it contributed to payalysis, and was leveraged by a small group of obstructionist petro-states as a deliberate stalling tactic. The article also examines the growing default of consensus-based decision-making in multilateral environmental agreement negotiations and the risks the poses, including diluted agreements, lowest-common-denominator outcomes, and stalled progress at a time when ambitious global action is urgently needed.