Christina Dixon

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…

Alexandra Harrington

Alexandra Harrington

Dr Alexandra R. Harrington is a Visiting Scholar at the McGill University Faculty of Law and Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law Agreement on Plastic Pollution Task Force. She is a legal delegate for the IUCN at the Global Plastics Treaty, where she also advises and represents several West African countries, as…

Episode 280: Paralysis by Consensus: The Collapse of the Plastic Treaty Talks with Christina Dixon and Alexandra Harrington

I am Dominic Bowen, and I am the host of the International Risk Podcast. At 7am on the 15th of August, after ten days of marathon sessions and a final overtime session that stretched more than 24 hours, the Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution formally adjourned INC-5.2. What was meant…