Recently, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) announced that the GLoLitter Partnership (GLP) program has received an extension from the main sponsor, the Norwegian Development Agency (Norad). The new end date for the GLP program is December 2025.
Since its establishment in December 2019, the GloLitter project has developed national action plans (NAPs) to address the issue of marine plastic waste, promoted regional partnerships to implement joint projects, and produced many knowledge products to help enforce existing regulations, including Annex V of the International Maritime Organization's Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL).
New proposals are currently being developed to utilize additional funding from different funders after 2025 to support the implementation of national priorities identified in the national action plan, advance regional joint initiatives, and implement pilot projects and innovative solutions to address the issue of marine plastic waste from the shipping and fisheries sectors.
