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EA publications cover pressing environmental topics offering new research and actionable guidance to equip businesses, NGOs, regulators and sustainability professionals with data and insights that lead to direct action.

Plastic Overshoot Day: Report 2025 

Plastic Overshoot Day marks the point when the amount of plastic waste generated exceeds the world’s capacity to manage it, resulting in environmental pollution. In 2025, the global Plastic Overshoot Day is projected to occur on September 5th.

No treaty in Geneva: now what? 

Authors : Sarah Perreard of Earth Action and Ligia Moreno Soares of Valuing Impact INC-5.2 Geneva negotiations end without a plastics treaty: what businesses need to know  After two weeks of negotiations in Geneva, INC-5.2 closed without agreement on a

INC‑5.2 : Side Events Planner

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) commissioned Earth Action (EA) to assess the global costs and benefits of banning and phasing out problematic plastic products to support WWF’s ongoing plastic advocacy efforts

The Plasteax model: A top-down mass balance approach

Executive Summary  In this document, we present the value of using a model-based mass-balance approach for tracking the fate of plastic packaging waste across different countries, packaging types, and polymers. This is the approach EA uses to produce the ‘Plasteax’

Building circular: Lessons from the 90th LCA Discussion Forum

Can you briefly introduce yourself and describe your role at EA? My name is Marguerite, and I’m an environmental analyst at EA. I work on carbon footprint assessments, life cycle analysis (LCA), and the development of climate strategies to support companies

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