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)