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Prevention of Marine Litter
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- It was signed between Republic of India and Federal Republic of Germany in 2019.
- It will help India achieve the goal of phasing out single use plastics by 2022
- India and Germany recently signed agreement on ‘Cities combating plastic entering the marine environment’.
- Marine litter threatens ecosystems and adversely affects fishery and tourism industries around the globe.
- It affects public health with increased concerns about micro-plastic and risk of particles entering the food chain.
- The project is to be implemented mainly in the states of Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
- It will mainly support cities such as Port Blair, Kochi and Kanpur.
- India is the twelfth largest source of marine litter in the world.
- By 2025, it is expected to become the fifth largest source of marine litter.
- It is estimated that 15-20% of all plastics are entering oceans via riverine ecosystems of which 90% are contributed by 10 of the world’s most polluting rivers.
- Two of these river systems are located in India, namely Ganga and Brahmaputra.
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