Do plastics rule the world?

Associate Professor of Law at Paris Dauphine University -PSL, Béatrice Parance specialises in environmental law, corporate social responsibility law and health law, after completing a generalist degree in private law at Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne University. She was a member of the National Commission on Ethics and Whistleblowing in Public Health and the Environment (2017-2020) and remains a member of the Health and Environment Group, which oversees the implementation of the National Health and Environment Plan under the aegis of the Ministry of Ecology. She participates in numerous working groups and discussions on issues relating to health and environmental risk regulation, particularly emerging risks such as endocrine disruptors, and has edited several collective works. Her other major areas of research are ecological damage compensation and climate litigation, on which she has written numerous articles, as well as corporate social responsibility and its implications for corporate governance in the face of environmental challenges, in particular new compliance mechanisms rooted in corporate duty of care and non-financial reporting. 

Henri Bourgeois Costa is a specialist in ecosystem geography. After working for NGOs since 1997, he developed expertise in water, biodiversity and the industrial environment (eco-design, plastics processing, recovery). Since 2019, he has been working at the Tara Ocean Foundation, where he advocates for the circular economy, particularly with regard to plastics and toxic substances, and raises these issues at the international level in the context of UN negotiations.