Vigil Yu

Vigil Yu is a Senior Program Officer at Verra, a global nonprofit that develops and manages leading environmental standards, including the Plastic Waste Reduction Standard. In her role, Vigil coordinates Verra’s policy engagement and strategic partnerships globally, with a particular focus on Asia. She works closely with governments, multilateral institutions, and private sector actors to integrate high-integrity Plastic Credits into national and regional Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) systems.

From Geneva to Southeast Asia: Turning Plastics Treaty Ambitions into Action

Despite intensive negotiations at INC-5.2 in Geneva, governments had not agreed on a final draft of the Global Plastics Treaty, leaving its future uncertain. For Southeast Asia, however, the challenge was immediate: plastic use was projected to triple by 2060, and the region already generated the majority of the world’s mismanaged plastic waste.