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The Ocean Plastics Leadership Network, a 90-member group assisted by World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace is working “not to achieve consensus, but understanding and hopefully new ideas and collaborations.”

OPLN is one of '10 climate NGOs companies should know' - Their leaders warn against falling into the Paris Agreement’s traps of inefficiency and excluding frontline communities from negotiations.

Nestlé is participating at the national level and is hoping that more countries will choose to have their own national multi-stakeholder dialogues to facilitate this robust process.

'OPLN: Experiential Learning for the Win'

“What we’re trying to do is get all the parties historically fighting each other to understand where everybody sits,” OPLN Founder Ford says. “In a lot of cases, they might be closer than they think.

The OPLN calls for transparency throughout the supply chains to shine a light on where plastics can be reduced or intercepted before they reach nature.

'Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration is Key to Solving Ocean Plastics Crisis'

"By placing leaders in complex and unknown environments, our goal is to translate that awareness into openness and empathy, to break down walls for deeper collaboration and to accelerate industry-wide solutions at scale."
