We Need a Global Treaty on Plastics. Here’s What it Should Look Like.
There are not only strong economic arguments for reducing plastic pollution, there's also strong environmental and health benefits.
Author Nils Simon
Nils Simon is a Senior Project Manager at adelphi. The focus of his work at adelphi is on international cooperation.
As political scientist, Nils specialises in international environmental and sustainability governance. He has worked especially intensively on global chemicals governance, the United Nations, and the phenomenon of institutional complexity. His core methodological competencies include policy, stakeholder, and institutional analyses.
Nils is currently the head of the project “Integrating sustainability in international chemicals management: further development of the Rio process post-2020”. On behalf of the German Federal Environment Agency, adelphi is analysing strategic approaches to international chemicals management (SAICM) and is developing a concept for its reform.
Prior to his work at adelphi, Nils was employed as a post-doctoral researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). He researched multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development within the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700 “Governance in areas of limited statehood”. There he co-authored a background paper for UNDESA on the transparency and accountability of transnational partnerships, which he presented at the ECOSOC Partnership Forum. Prior to that, he conducted research at the SWP from 2009 to 2010 as part of a BMU-supported project on the reform of international environmental governance with a focus on the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).
Nils completed a doctoral dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin, writing on the management of institutional complexity in international chemicals governance. During his doctoral studies he received a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation and was a visiting researcher at the SWP. Prior to that, he had completed a Diplom in political science, also at the Freie Universität Berlin, with a thesis on the diffusion of urban climate action strategies. He also holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Sussex, UK. During his studies, Nils was supported by a scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation.