Arpita (she/her)
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Dog mom, climate campaigner & policy advocate. Plastic Policy Officer @ZeroWasteAsia @GAIAnoburn Ex: @Purpose @greenpeaceindia @GreenCommF
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Joined October 2009
@moefcc @MahaForest @NaikSpeaks Forest fire in Karjat Also reported to hello forest Waiting for acknowledgement
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Washington Post Exposes Modi Govt’s Rs 32,370 crores Bailout for Crony Billionaire. Modi is a corrupt Prime Minister . The Washington Post exposed that the Modi government directed a $3.9 billion bailout for Adani Group, despite U.S. fraud and bribery charges against it.
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🚨Showing our collective power outside plenary🚨 Observers gather outside the plenary hall, telling delegates to fix the process, keep their promise, and end plastic pollution. #INC52 #PlasticsTreaty #BeatPlasticPollution #BreakFreeFromPlastic
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"Progress made has not been sufficient" - #INC52 Chair says. After two years, with many opportunities to move forward, there are too many unresolved issues with little time to resolve.
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Tags for Foreign Ministries: FR - @francediplo & @jeannoelbarot SPAIN - @exteriores.maec GER - @auswaertigesamt BRZL - @itamaratygovbr SWEDISH - @swedishmfa TURKEY - @tcdisisleri DUTCH - @minbz
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SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. Rima Hassan is a French citizen. Pressure the foreign ministries and help us keep them safe! E: alertes.cdc@diplomatie.gouv.fr & courrier.scec@diplomatie.gouv.fr X : @FranceDiplo_EN & @francediplo &
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An ambitious two-and-a-half-year timeline was set at the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA 5.2) in March 2022 to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution. https://t.co/RpIptSJbuh
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#Thread We @reporters_co investigated Modi Govt’s global PR machinery--its Ministry of Truth. What we uncovered: lobbying to downplay child hunger in global rankings, creating a poverty index to claim reduction in poverty, and even dodging responsibility for democracy! Read on.
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With just two meetings left to finalize the text of a Global Plastics Treaty, the significance of the current Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting cannot be overstated. https://t.co/YRkllKkDOF
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#INC5 #PlasticsTreaty: "Among member states, most are in consensus to take tougher actions to curb plastics production with stricter limits." With quotes from GAIA Asia Pacific's Arpita Bhagat and @plasticdietid @AZWIndonesia's @RahyangNsntra via @ecobusinesscom.
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Plastic treaty talks draw to a close with production limits still under debate
wtnh.com
BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — Negotiations on a treaty to end plastic pollution are drawing to a close Sunday as nations continue debating whether part of that should be putting limits on plastic produ…
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Negotiators from HAC Member States EU 🇪🇺 Fiji 🇫🇯 Kenya 🇰🇪Mexico 🇲🇽 resume talks at #INC5 with informal consultations towards finalizing negotiations on an ambitious and effective #PlasticsTreaty 📷IISD/ENB - Kiara Worth
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“If we leave this to the hands of negotiators, we’ll end up with Compilation Text 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0. We cannot continue with this model…To #BreakFreeFromPlastic, we need to break free from brackets!” 🔥 -Fiji 🇫🇯 chief plastics negotiator @sivendram13
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. @theeco_nomist you sir are the warrior the planet needs. Thank you for standing against those for whom greed > planet. The future generations would be thankfully for your courage. #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty
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Yet again, civil society space is shrinking at the UN Waste pickers, affected communities, Indigenous Peoples have come from around the world for the global #PlasticsTreaty talks and can't even get a literal seat at the table We won't accept this and demand to be heard at #INC5
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Plastic is an environmental justice issue. 🌍 Countries in the Global South & SIDS produce little plastic but face disproportionate risks - as do frontline communities and informal sector workers. The #PlasticsTreaty must drive a just transition to a fair, circular economy.
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Happening today (Nov 18) at 9AM EST | 9AM 🇪🇨 | 5PM 🇰🇪 🇺🇬 | 7:30PM 🇮🇳 | 10PM 🇵🇭! Across the map, representatives from healthcare, CSO, youth, and wastepickers join us for our #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty Primer. #BreakFreeFromPlastic Set a reminder for our Space now⤵️
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Join us on Nov 18 for an #INC5 primer where we’ll dive into key issues and expectations for the final round of plastics treaty negotiations. Set a reminder now⬇️ https://t.co/LjDwh9mmzl
#PlasticsTreaty #BreakFreeFromPlastic
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UPDATE - NAPM Saathis being detained by Delhi Police for peacefully protesting at Gulab Vatika Delhi. NAPM demands the immediate release of Laddakhi Padyatris & saathis exercising their democratic right to dissent. Among those arrested -Medha Patkar, Prafful Samntra, Dr. Sunilam
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