Awkward accountability

LAST month, in a discomfiting but obviously quite necessary candid admission, the environmental group Ocean Conservancy issued a "statement of accountability" concerning what was at the time a landmark report titled "Stemming the Tide," which the group published in September 2015. The report was significant to the Philippines because at the time, and for several years after the report's publication, the Philippines was identified as one of the world's biggest sources of plastic pollution in the ocean.

Ocean Conservancy has since retracted that report, and in its statement dated July 10 (which you can find at https://oceanconservancy.org/trash-free-seas/take-deep-dive/stemming-the-tide/) the group explained and apologized for several errors it had made.