Aleksandar Rankovic is the director and co-founder of The Common Initiative, an international think-tank working on geopolitics and sustainability. He holds a PhD in ecology (Sorbonne University) and a degree in international affairs (Sciences Po Paris). Previously, Aleksandar was a senior research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has also led international campaigns with the Avaaz movement, notably in support of Indigenous Peoples’ coalitions. His team has followed the INC process from the beginning and he was in Busan and in Geneva.
After failing to deliver a legally binding UN treaty on plastic pollution in Busan last December, the Geneva INC-5.2 talks last week were a near facsimile. Negotiations once again collapsed, […]
