As part of the CTI-CFF Women Leaders Forum launch, six grassroots women leaders were honored and awarded a small grant of US$3,000 to carry out marine conservation and sustainability project in their communities. USAID, DOI, CTC supported and managed the grants for PNG, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste while the Asian Development Bank supported the grants for Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
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- 20 Feb 2018
Marine plastics debris is becoming a major concern globally. As early as 2015, a research published in the journal Science ranked the top 20 plastic polluters and found that most of the plastic entering the ocean comes from China, followed by Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka. The study found that China, being the highest contributor to plastic marine debris, contributed ca. 1.32 to 3.52 million tonnes a year, and Indonesia ca. 0.5-1.3 million tonnes per year (Jambeck et al., 2015).
