Environment

Protesters disrupted Bloomberg’s speech at the summit’s main plenary.

If added to the List of World Heritage in Danger, the Great Barrier Reef would become the first on it because of climate change reasons.

"If we're going to significantly reduce ocean plastic pollution, we need an innovative and rigorous approach to ensure that the strategies we design are set up to delivering results."

“Indigenous people are facing a series of threats at this moment and we decided to resist.”

"The U.S. has a relatively robust waste infrastructure, yet an estimated five times as much plastic pollution entered the oceans in 2016 than in 2010."

“We need to create proper systems for controlling and regulating plastic pollution, at local, national and global levels.”

Emissions from these top fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers could also be linked to about 50% of increasing drought and high fire-risk conditions in the same area since 1901.

"There is a deep and pervasive relationship between oil and gas companies and plastics."

“I think it’s fair to say that API and its prominent member companies have a broadly shared goal, which is to keep the social license of the oil and gas industry operating, and therefore enabling them to continue to extract oil and gas for as long as possible, as profitably as possible.”

“The increase in emphysema we observed was relatively large, similar to the lung damage caused by 29 pack-years of smoking and 3 years of aging.”