Kua puta te tuhinga hukihuki Tiriti Global Plastic, kua tīmata ngā mahi tūturu

E kī nei a Green Peace Aoteroa he mea whakaputa i te wiki nei kote mahi ki te Tiri Global Plastic he whakatūturu i tā ngā iwi taketake whai wāhi, ka mutu, kia iwi taketake te ārahi o ngā whakatau ki ōna huānga katoa.

“Mō te whawhai ki te parahanga kirihau ko te Global Plastic Treaty tētahi āheinga kotahi i tētahi tauoranga. Mena ka tika tā ngā kāwanatanga o te ao, ka riro i a tātou tētahi taonga paiherenga ā-ture e aukati nei i te mahi kirihau, e ū tonu te haurehu me te hinu ki te papa, ka mutu, waihanga i tētahi pūnaha hangarua” hei tā Juressa Lee kaiwhakatairanga kirihau o Greenpeace Aotearoa

Kāore he tangata Kotahi e hiahia ana ki te kite i te taiao e rāoa ana i te kirihau. Kāore tētahi e hiahia ki te kite i te kirihau-moroiti kei a mātou kai, kei ō mātou wai, hau anō hoki.

He mea puta te tuhinga hukihuki i ngā rā tōmua o tēnei wiki e Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) rāua ko the United Nations Assembly (UNEA), i mua atu i ngā whakawhitiwhiti Tiriti ki Nairobi, Kenya atu i te Nōema 13-19.

“Kei tēnei tuhinga hukihuki kore o te Tiriti Global Plastic ngā whakaritenga e tika ana hei whakiti me te whakamahi i te hanga kirihou, Heoi, me koke tonu ngā kāwanatanga ki te whakaū i tētahi tiriti whakahirahira e weto ai te kōrere kirihau paitini”

“Ko te hiahia kia tohe tohu te Kawanatanga o Aoteroa ki tētahi Tiriti kaha rawa atu.”

Kei te tohe a Greenpeace Aoteroa ki tētahi Tiriti Global Plastic kaha, ka mutu, mana tika, me te whakamiramira i te hirahira o te noho o te reo me te whai wāhitanga whai kiko o te iwi taketake me ngā hapori kei te aroaro ā-kapa ki te uho o ngā kōrero, ā, me te whakarewa i tētahi petihana kua neke atu i te 47, 000 ngā hainatanga i Aotearoa.

E kī nei a Lee me whakaheke te Tiriti Global Plastics i te mahi kirihau mā te 75% neke atu ki te whakatūturu i tā tātou noho i raro i te 1.5° C. Whakataunga ki Parī.

“E tika ana kia noho haumaru ngā hapori katoa huri noa i te ao i ngā kino ka puta i te parahanga. Me tiaki te tiriti i te āhuarangi me te tuku i tētahi ao -mā, ka mutu, mā ki ō tātou uri whakaheke.”

About the author

Juressa Lee (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi, Rarotonga) is currently the Plastics campaigner at Greenpeace Aotearoa, working towards eliminating unnecessary single use plastic…s, banning colossal plastic waste exports, and transforming Aotearoa to a circular economy. The whakapapa of my whānau is a journey through Te Moana Nui a Kiwa. From the Whangape Harbour to Rawhiti via Ngawha, down to Tauranga Moana, over to Tupapa and Ngatangiia in Rarotonga, and north again to Tahiti. My tamariki, through their pāpā, also whakapapa to Toi village in Niue. I was raised by a mother who was always mindful of her impact on the planet, and navigated it accordingly. My dad has always enjoyed nature and instilled in us that there were responsibilities we had to be able to keep enjoying it. This was my very first influence. When I became an adult and then a mother myself, decolonising my life became a priority to raise my tamariki without those shackles. Along the way and without realising, my whakaaro around kaitiakitanga began to shift - I felt more responsible, but also more empowered. I am deeply connected to te taiao and am witnessing constant devastating impacts that plastics microplastics are having on ecosystems. Our oceans, waterways, beaches, and human health are impacted by this global issue. This problem is colossal, but so is our fight to protect te taiao. There are solutions to these issues. We need to “turn off the plastic tap”, we need the Government to ban all single use plastics, we need a refillable bottle scheme and we need to shift mindsets across Aotearoa that plastic is choking te taiao.