December 2020 2nd Regional Ocean Policy Dialogue

1. FINANCING SOLUTIONS TO REDUCE
MARINE PLASTICS POLLUTION
Anjali Acharya
East Asia and Pacific Region
The World Bank
15 December 2020

2. Informing Solutions through Key Analytics and Policy Support
CHINA
• Analytics (metrics, tech. studies)
• Policy support (sector implementation roadmaps)
PACIFIC ISLANDS
• Analytics (waste audits, regional recycling)
• Policy support (Roadmap for Regional
Recycling Network)
MYANMAR
• Analytics (metrics)
• Policy support (support National
Action Plan, prioritize policies)
LAO PDR
• Analytics (metrics, private sector)
• Policy support (inputs to National
Action Plan/Roadmap)
VIETNAM
• Analytics (metrics, plastic value chain, gender)
• Policy support (impl of National Action Plan)
• Support as ASEAN Chair 2020.
PHILIPPINES
• Analytics (metrics, policy options analysis)
• Policy support (support to National Plan of
Action for Plastics, recommend plastic policies)
THAILAND
• Analytics (metrics, plastic value chain)
• Policy support (development of
National Marine Plastics Action Plan)
CAMBODIA
• Analytics (metrics, policy options, gender)
• Policy support (Plastics Action Plan)
MALAYSIA
• Analytics (metrics capacity building, tech. studies)
• Policy support (CE roadmap, support to APEC events)
INDONESIA
• Analytics (metrics, EPR)
• Policy support (behavior change, roadmap to
support the National Action Plan)
• Investments (National SWM Project; LAUTRA)
Nearly $9 million of trust fund resources
committed. Engagements across the
region, at country and sub-regional level
ASEAN Regional Action Plan
on Marine Debris
Regional studies on harmonized
approach to plastics metrics;
regional plastics recycling market
and plastic waste trade

3. Upstream Analytics Plastic Circularity Waste Management Clean-Up
Plastic Diagnostics
Policy Reforms
Finance
Technology
Clean-up
rivers,
shorelines,
reservoirs
Catalyzing Investments Across the Waste Chain
• World Bank-financed investment projects in key sectors, with plastics
components/activities
• IFC investments with private sector across plastics recycling and
alternatives, infrastructure
• Regional: Supporting regional actions and catalyzing innovation through the
Southeast Asia Regional Program on Marine Plastics (SEA-MaP)