Crown announces participation plans at COP28
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Crown has announced it is participating in two key sessions on site at COP28, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, which takes place in Dubai, UAE, from 30 November to 12 December. As the world’s largest and most prominent annual meeting of the minds on climate-related issues, COP28 serves as a critical forum for various industries to take stock of progress around the Paris Agreement.
Amid the ongoing race to slow the pace of climate change, Crown continues to take a proactive role in industry sustainability initiatives. Long-term decarbonisation remains at the forefront of those efforts, it says, with Climate Action and Optimum Circularity as two core pillars of focus within the company’s ongoing Twentyby30 programme.
Sandrine Duquerroy-Delesalle, director of sustainability & external affairs at Crown, will speak at COP28 along with other thought leaders on various aluminium-centric topics. Details of the sessions include:
COP28 Call to Action – Circularity in the Heavy Emitting Sectors: A Call to Accelerate Aluminium Beverage Can Circularity
Tuesday 5 December, 4pm GST
Convened by COP28 and the International Aluminium Institute, the call to action will gather the aluminium beverage can industry and call on national governments to improve circularity policies. It will focus on the importance of aluminium beverage can recycling to achieve net zero targets, the need for widespread national and regional legislation and policies that will drive higher collection, sorting and recycling of used beverage cans.
From Policy to Action, Solving the Waste Challenges
Wednesday 6 December, 1pm GST
Convened by Tadweer, a leading waste and environmental services operator, and aimed at unpacking waste management strategies and regulations, and notably the principles of extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies and its impacts on product life cycles, as well as the environmental importance of achieving packaging waste recycling targets.