Road to Geneva | Plastic Pollution INC-5.2

The second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2) took place from 5 to 15 August 2025 in Geneva.

Plastics Treaty INC-5.2 “Offsite Buzz”

A compilation of resources and activities – including conferences, receptions, artistic and cultural demonstrations – that took place in the margins of INC-5.2 can be accessed here.

Second Part of the Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee

The second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2), took place from 5 to 15 August 2025 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session also counted on the presence of Ministers and other high-level officials from 12 to 14 August 2025. → Follow the Session through the Earth Negotiation Bulletin and live on UN TV.

• Chair’s revised text proposal (15 August 2025)
• Chair’s draft text proposal (13 August 2025)
• Assembled text – UNEP/PP/INC.5/CRP.1 (8 August 2025)
• Chair’s Text (1 December 2024)
• Scenario Note (UNEP/PP/INC.5/INF/13) | Access it in all UN languages
• Information Note
• Note from the Chair (for the Heads of Delegation (HOD) meeting held from 30 June to 2 July 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya)

Outcomes

After ten days and nights of intense work in formal and informal settings, the resumed fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2) was adjourned at 09:11 a.m. on 15 August 2025 and will resume at a later date. This session was attended by more than 2,600 participants, including over 1,400 Member delegates from 183 countries, and close to 1,000 Observers representing over 400 organizations. In the last days of the session, 70 Ministers and Vice-Ministers, and 30 other high-level representatives joined for informal roundtables on the margins of the session.

While disappointment was expressed in the statements of many Member States during the closing plenary and in the press releases of observers, the commitment and readiness to continue working towards a Global Plastics Treaty remain unchanged. The UN Secretary General welcomed “the determination of Member States in continuing to work to beat plastic pollution and keep engaged in the process, united in purpose, to deliver the treaty the world needs to tackle this monumental challenge to people and the environment.” The commitment and engagement of the numerous organizations that joined the Geneva session are also a demonstration that the movement to end plastic pollution goes beyond the treaty in preparation.

Final statements and analyses on the outcomes of the meeting include:

• Earth Negotiations Bulletin
• UNEP | Talks on global plastic pollution treaty adjourn without consensus | 15 August 2025
• UN News | Plastic pollution treaty talks adjourn, but countries want to ‘remain at the table’: UNEP chief | 15 August 2025
• IISD | No Compromise on the Plastics Treaty – Talks Must Keep Pushing for Ambition | 15 August 2025
• IUCN | Plastics Treaty negotiations end without agreement in Geneva – yet many countries and stakeholders remain strongly engaged to end plastic pollution | 15 August 2025
• GEF | GEF CEO Statement on Plastic Pollution Treaty Negotiations | 15 August 2025
• Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty | Independent Science Ready to Support Next Steps to Achieve an Effective Plastics Treaty | 15 August 2025
• Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty | Our statement on the INC-5.2 outcome | 15 August 2025
• Break Free from Plastic
• IPEN | Despite Wide Agreement on the Need to Address the Plastics Crisis, Oil States Derail Efforts for a Global Plastics Treaty | 15 August 2025
• GAIA | Ambitious Countries Stand Strong, Refuse Weak Plastics Treaty | 15 August 2025
• CIEL | CIEL Staff React to End of Resumed Fifth Plastics Treaty Talks & Video | 15 August 2025
• Greenpeace International | INC 5.2: “The inability to reach an agreement in Geneva must be a wake-up call for the world”, Greenpeace statement | 15 August 2025
• WEF | INC-5.2: The global plastics treaty talks – here’s what just happened | 15 August 2025
• EIA
• WWF | States must choose new path as UN plastics talks collapse with no clear way forward | 15 August 2025
• GRID-Arendal | No Treaty… Yet | 15 August 2025
• ICC | Business disappointed by failure to secure global plastics treaty | 15 August 2025
• IEN | The Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations, by Design, Result in Continued Harms to Indigenous Peoples, Waste Pickers and Trade Unions, Youth, and Affected Communities, but We Have Solutions | 15 August 2025
• Global Plastics Diplomacy Briefing

This important negotiation made the headlines of numerous media for two weeks. Articles on the outcomes from journalists who joined on-site include:

• John Scanlon | illuminem | Is a Plastics Pollution Treaty still within reach? | 25 August 2025
• H.E. Amb. Felix Wertli of Switzerland | Why we couldn’t agree on a plastics treaty in Geneva – and what might happen next | 21 August 2025
• Reuters | Analysis: What can break the global deadlock over plastics? | 20 August 2025
• Neil Tangri |UNEP, the plastics treaty, and institutional reform | 18 August 2025
• Japan Times | Tough U.S. stance casts gloom over plastics pollution deal after Geneva flop | 16 August 2025
• AP News |Failure of talks for plastic treaty turn focus back to reduce, reuse, recycle. How’s that going? | 16 August 2025
• Forbes |Plastics Manufacturing At Crossroads: Pivot To Lead Or Lose | 16 August 2025
• AFP | World plastic pollution treaty talks collapse with no deal | 15 August 2025
• AP | No end in sight to plastic pollution crisis as treaty negotiations in Geneva fail | 15 August 2025
• RFI | Disappointment and anger after world fails to agree plastic pollution treaty | 15 August 2025
• Le Temps | Echec des négociations pour un accord sur le plastique à Genève | 15 August 2025
• Tribune de Genève | Traité anti-pollution plastique: les discussions de Genève échouent | 15 August 2025
• The Guardian | Plastic pollution talks fail as negotiators in Geneva reject draft treaties | 15 August 2025
• Climate Home News | Plastics treaty talks collapse without a deal after “chaotic” negotiations | 15 August 2025
• GRIST | ‘Consensus kills ambition’: UN plastics treaty talks end without an agreement | 15 August 2025
• France24 | World plastic pollution treaty talks collapse with no deal | 15 August 2025
• Arete News | Back to Busan: Global plastic pollution treaty talks end in disarray | 15 August 2025
• Reuters | Plastic pollution treaty stalled as Geneva talks end without deal | 15 August 2025
• Health Policy Watch | UN Plastics Treaty Talks Fail Again After Overnight Deadlock | 15 August 2025
• Rejecting a Weak Plastics Treaty, Countries Open the Door to Stronger Climate Ambition | Neil Tangri | 15 August 2025

Livestream

Plenary 15 August 2025

Previous Plenary Sessions

Plenary (14 August 2025) | Plenary (13 August 2025) | Plenary (9 August 2025) | Opening Plenary (5 August 2025)

UNEP – Media Stakeout: INC-5.2 on Plastic Pollution (15 August 2025)

Highlights

Previous Days

Day 10 | Day 9 | Day 8 | Day 7 | Day 5 | Day 4 | Day 3 | Day 2 | Day 1 | Day 0

Analyses and News at INC-5.2

Press Releases and Statements

• Global Plastics Treaty talks hit setback: more than a plastic pollution crisis, latest Chair’s Text draft sparks dismay – yet there is still hope with one day left | IUCN | 14 August 2025
• Is Solving the Plastic Problem a Moral Issue? The Dalai Lama, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Vatican weigh in | Nautilus | 13 August 2025
• 24 Hours to Go: Member States Should Reject Draft Plastics Treaty Text | CIEL | 13 August 2025
• IPEN Statement on the Chair’s Text | IPEN | 13 August 2025
• WWF’s response to INC-5.2 Chair’s new text: “This is not a treaty” | WWF | 13 August 2025
• Scientists’ Coalition – Comments on Chair’s New Draft Text | Scientists Coalition | 13 August 2025
• Our reaction to the August 13th Chair’s draft text | Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty | 13 August 2025
• Statement on New Chair’s Plastics Treaty Text | Gallifrey Foundation | 13 August 2025
• Plastic Pollution Coalition Reaction | 13 August 2025
• GAIA’s Statement on the Chair’s New Text at Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-5.2) | GAIA | 13 August 2025
• Statement on INC Chair’s Draft Text Proposal for the Global Plastics Treaty | Healthcare Without Harm | 13 August 2025
• New draft treaty text is a lost opportunity: Indigenous Peoples tokenised and silenced | International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Plastics | 13 August 2025
• Amy Youngman, Environmental Investigation Agency | 13 August 2025
• With Hours of Negotiations Left, “Unacceptable” Chair Text Abandons Pretense of Caring About a Better Future for Impacted Communities | Center for Coalfield Justice | 13 August 2025
• With 1 Day Left: Civil Society Groups React to Plastics Treaty Text Proposed by the INC Chair | Break Free From Plastic | 13 August 2025
• Midway Through the Plastics Treaty Negotiations, Protecting Health Must Take Center Stage | IPEN | 9 August 2025
• Civil society call out INC-5.2 Member States: Fix the process, keep your promise, end plastic pollution | WWF | 9 August 2025
• Plastics Treaty Negotiators: Fix the process. Keep your promise. End Plastic Pollution. | Break Free From Plastic | 8 August 2025
• Keep Your Promise, Fix the Process, End Plastic Pollution | GAIA | 8 August 2025
• Plastics Treaty Negotiators: Fix the Process. Keep your Promise. End Plastic Pollution. | CIEL | 8 August 2025
• Changer le processus, tenez votre promesse, mettez fin à la pollution plastique | Greenpeace Suisse | 8 August 2025
• Children and Youth Major Group to UNEP | CYMG | 8 August
• Update from INC 5.2 | Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty | 8 August 2025
• Resumed fifth session of negotiations on a global plastic pollution treaty opens in Geneva | UNEP | 5 August 2025

Daily Analyses

• IISD ENB daily updates
• Global Plastics Diplomacy Briefing daily wraps
• Break Free From Plastics POPLite daily summaries
• Scientists’ Coalition regular updates
• GAIA updates
• IPEN updates
• Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) daily videos
• WWF Daily Bulletins
• Action on Smoking & Health daily blogs
• Geneva Environment Network social media channels | X (Twitter), Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Bluesky

Positions

• Inside the UN’s failed Plastic Treaty | CRIN | 29 October 2025
• With 24 hours to go, the committee has been clear: Ambition is not up for compromise and attempts by UNEP to deliver a treaty at any cost will not be tolerated | Global Plastics Policy Centre Website, University of Portsmouth | 14 August 2025
• 24 Hours to Go: Member States Should Reject Draft Plastics Treaty Text | CIEL | 13 August 2025
• IPEN Statement on the Chair’s Text | IPEN | 13 August 2025
• WWF’s response to INC-5.2 Chair’s new text: “This is not a treaty” | WWF | 13 August 2025
• Scientists’ Coalition – Comments on Chair’s New Draft Text | Scientists Coalition | 13 August 2025
• Our reaction to the August 13th Chair’s draft text| Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty | 13 August 2025
• Statement on New Chair’s Plastics Treaty Text | Gallifrey Foundation | 13 August 2025
• Plastic Pollution Coalition Reaction | 13 August 2025
• GAIA’s Statement on the Chair’s New Text at Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-5.2) | GAIA | 13 August 2025
• Statement on INC Chair’s Draft Text Proposal for the Global Plastics Treaty | Healthcare Without Harm | 13 August 2025
• New draft treaty text is a lost opportunity: Indigenous Peoples tokenised and silenced | International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Plastics | 13 August 2025
• Amy Youngman, Environmental Investigation Agency | 13 August 2025
• With Hours of Negotiations Left, “Unacceptable” Chair Text Abandons Pretense of Caring About a Better Future for Impacted Communities | Center for Coalfield Justice | 13 August 2025
• With 1 Day Left: Civil Society Groups React to Plastics Treaty Text Proposed by the INC Chair | Break Free From Plastic | 13 August 2025
• Ambassador Vayas takes the pen in high-stakes plastics treaty endgame | Magnus Løvold | 13 August 2025
• CERN technology showcased in the context of UN Plastic Treaty discussions | CERN | 13 August 2025
• EU Says It’s Ready to Deal on Plastics Treaty, But Not ‘At Any Cost’ | Health Policy Watch | 12 August 2025
• Groups seek to influence plastic pollution treaty talks at the UN as negotiations wind down | AP | 12 August 2025
• ‘I can shape the conversation’: When art meets plastic treaty talks | Geneva Solutions | 12 August 2025
• Youth voices push for ambition as Global Plastics Treaty negotiations enter final days | IUCN | 12 August 2025
• The art of a plastics treaty: How sculptures, collages, and poetry have influenced global talks | GRIST | 12 August 2025
• Notre appel pour l’élimination des plastiques nocifs dans le secteur de la santé | Medicins Sans Frontier | 12 August 2025
• “SIDS will not stand by while our future is bartered away”- Palau as Chair of AOSIS | SPREP | 10 August 2025
• [Opinion] A Strong Plastics Treaty Will Help Solve Plastic Pollution, With or Without Big Plastic Producers | Neil Tangri | GAIA | 9 August 2025
• Massive and unwieldy, Pacific SIDS concerned over ballooning plastics treaty text | SPREP | 9 August 2025
• Momentum sagging at UN plastic pollution treaty talks | AFP | 9 August 2025
• As US joins oil states in blocking production cuts, UN plastics treaty talks remain deadlocked | Climate Home News | 8 August 2025
• U.S. Backs Polluters Over People at UN Plastics Treaty Talks | Plastic Pollution Coalition | 8 August 2025
• Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Swarm ‘Last Chance’ UN Plastics Treaty Talks | Health Policy Watch | 8 August 2025
• Ink Wars, Episode 5.2 | Magnus Løvold | 8 August 2025
• Fossil Fuel and Petrochemical Lobbyists Overrun Plastics Treaty Negotiations | CIEL | 7 August 2025
• Why a global plastics treaty needs to move beyond negotiations to inclusive action | WEF | 6 August 2025
• Plastic Polymers Exempt from Global Waste Regulations Pose Threats to Health and the Environment | IPEN | 5 August 2025
• Plastics and human health: what’s at stake in the global treaty talks in Geneva | The Conversation | 5 August 2025
• WWF: Stop letting a small minority derail the plastics treaty | Zaynab Sadan | Context | 5 August 2025
• Endgame | Magnus Løvold | 5 August 2025
• Plastic Pollution INC 5.2 Policy Recommendations | Health Diplomacy Alliance | 5 August 2025
• Why the World is Divided on Plastics as UN Treaty Talks Restart | Bloomberg | 5 August 2025
• Here’s what to watch for at this month’s global plastics treaty talks | Grist | 5 August 2025
• Divided nations start “final” talks on UN treaty to save us from “drowning in plastic pollution” | Climate Home News | 5 August 2025
• Plastic Pollution INC 5.2 Policy Recommendations | Health Diplomacy Alliance | 5 August 2025
• INC5.2 Policy Brief: International Cooperation model for the future Plastics Treaty, with a focus on biodiversity and OneHealth | IUCN | 4 August 2025
• Coming together for biodiversity, human health, and international cooperation at INC5.2 | IUCN | 4 August 2025

In the Media

• Deadlock on production, chemicals as global plastic treaty talks falter | Arete News | 14 August 2025
• Draft U.N. plastic treaty lacks teeth on production and chemicals | Arete News | 13 August 2025
• Global plastics treaty ‘drama’ on a knife-edge over production caps | Arete News | 12 August 2025
• ‘A Mockery’: Nations Unite in Outrage at Plastics Treaty Draft | Health Policy Watch | 13 August 2025
• EU Says It’s Ready to Deal on Plastics Treaty, But Not ‘At Any Cost’ | Health Policy Watch | 12 August 2025
• Groups seek to influence plastic pollution treaty talks at the UN as negotiations wind down | AP | 12 August 2025
• ‘I can shape the conversation’: When art meets plastic treaty talks | Geneva Solutions | 12 August 2025
• Inside the corporate lobbying shaping Geneva’s plastics treaty talks | Geneva Solutions | 7 August 2025
• Exclusive: Trump administration memo urges countries to reject plastic production caps in UN Treaty | Reuters | 6 August 2025
• UN plastic pollution talks must result in ambitious treaty, leading expert says | The Guardian | 5 August 2025
• The world is demanding action over plastic pollution: UN environment chief | UN News | 5 August 2025
• ‘David and Goliath battle’ as talks begin over deal to reduce plastic pollution | Sky News | 5 August 2025
• The final straw? Plastic pollution talks get underway in Geneva | UN News | 4 August 2025
• UN optimistic about reaching agreement on plastics in Geneva | Swiss Info | 4 August 2025
• L’analyse d’Olivier Dessibourg sur les enjeux de la pollution plastique | RTS | 4 August 2025
• Quinze jours pour sauver un traité mondial sur le plastique | Tribune de Genève | 4 August 2025
• L’ONU convaincue d’un possible accord sur le plastique à Genève | Léman Bleu | 4 August 2025
• A ‘Thinker’ drowns in plastic garbage as UN treaty talks open | RFI | 4 August 2025

Artwork in the Margins of INC-5.2

The artist Benjamin Von Wong will be building a giant sculpture – The Thinker’s Burden – on Place des Nations during the Plastics Treaty negotiation. → If you want to get involved or support, . If you’re based in Geneva and can help collect plastics, check the Plastics Collection Guide. See the artist’s past projects.

This sculptural remix of Rodin’s The Thinker — cradling a child, seated on Mother Earth, and wrapped in a strand of DNA (the building block of life) — will be slowly buried in plastic waste each day of the negotiations, symbolizing the rising toxicity, generational burden, and irreversible cost of political inaction.

The Thinker’s Burden is a call to conscience — a shared visual symbol for delegates, citizens, and organizations alike. It asks us to take responsibility for addressing plastic pollution, not just for ourselves, but for all future generations to come. It is a reminder that solving the plastics crisis requires more than simple fixes or recycling myths — it demands thoughtful, systemic action across the entire lifecycle of plastic to ensure that our solutions don’t become tomorrow’s regrets. → Join the inauguration at Place des Nations on 7 August 2025 from 18:30 CEST

International Geneva at INC-5.2

As a global hub for environmental governance, in particular for chemicals and waste issue, Geneva hosts many organizations whose work is highly relevant for the development of a new instrument on plastic pollution. Learn more about the organizations active in Geneva to tackle the plastic crisis through our Plastics and the Environment special section on “Addressing the Plastic Crisis from Geneva”. As we head towards INC-5.2, we will highlight documents and resources related to Geneva’s contribution to the meeting as well as activities organized around INC-5.2.

Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions | BRS Conventions

• Information submitted by the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (UNEP/PP/INC.5/INF/14) | 15 July 2025
• Addressing Chemicals of Concern in Plastics through Multilateral Environmental Agreements | November 2024

Center for International Environmental Law | CIEL

• CIEL Staff React to End of Resumed Fifth Plastics Treaty Talks & Video | 15 August 2025
• CIEL Expert Availability at the Resumed Fifth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2) for a Plastics Treaty in Geneva
• Preparatory Materials for the Resumed Fifth Session of the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-5.2)
• 10 Things To Know About INC-5.2, The Final Stretch in the Fight For a Global Plastics Treaty | 22 July 2025
• Building Flexibility: Key Considerations for the Future Plastics Treaty | 16 June 2025
• Countries Recommit to Red Lines Ahead of Upcoming Global Plastics Treaty Talks: A Nice Wake Up Call for an Ambitious Plastics Treaty provides more granular detail on how countries will deliver an ambitious Global Plastics Treaty | 10 June 2025
• Conflict of Interest in the Global Plastics Treaty | May 2025
• Fracking for Plastics: Exposing the Supply Chain Behind the Global Plastic Crisis | Stand.earth Research Group (SRG) and CIEL | 3 April 2025

Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs | TESS

• TESS at INC-5.2
• Trade-Related Considerations in Discussions at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to Develop an International Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution, Including in the Marine Environment | 5 August 2025
• Considerations for Ensuring Protection of Human Health From Plastic Pollution in the Future Treaty | TESS | 31 July 2025

Global Cities Hub – Geneva

Health Diplomacy Alliance

• Plastic Pollution INC 5.2 Policy Recommendations | 5 August 2025

International Institute for Sustainable Development

• Earth Negotiations Bulletin
• Inside INC-5.2
• Guide to the Global Agreement to End Plastic Pollution | 25 July 2025
• What to expect as Talks on Plastic Pollution Near the Finish Line at INC-5.2 | Tallash Kantai | 30 July 2025

International Organization for Standardization | ISO

International Union for Conservation of Nature | IUCN

• Plastics Treaty negotiations end without agreement in Geneva – yet many countries and stakeholders remain strongly engaged to end plastic pollution | 15 August 2025
• INC5.2 Policy Brief: International Cooperation model for the future Plastics Treaty, with a focus on biodiversity and OneHealth | 4 August 2025
• Coming together for biodiversity, human health, and international cooperation at INC5.2 | 4 August 2025
• Second part of the Fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution (INC-5.2)

UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | OHCHR

• Information submitted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNEP/PP/INC.5/INF/15) | OHCHR | 23 July 2025
• Information Note to (INC-5.2). The Right to Participation in Multilateral Environmental Processes | OHCHR | 26 June 2025

UN Trade and Development | UNCTAD

• Global Trade Update (August 2025): Mobilising trade to curb plastic pollution | 1 August 2025
• Plastic substitution in developing countries: Sectoral opportunities and challenges (Advance Copy) | 31 July 2025
• A review of parameters and requirements for an effective consumer label on plastics and plastics alternatives | 31 July 2025
• Leaving the shore: Marine-based substitutes and alternatives to plastics | 4 March 2025

World Economic Forum | WEF

World Health Organization | WHO

World Wildlife Fund | WWF

• INC Resources
• States must choose new path as UN plastics talks collapse with no clear way forward | 15 August 2025
• Plastic Treaty Must Haves | WWF International
• Plastics, Health and One Planet | July 2025
• France’s “wake up call” for an ambitious global plastic pollution treaty is welcome but it can only be realised by moving beyond consensus | WWF International | 10 June 2025
• Time for Courage | 29 May 2025

Additional Resources

Break Free From Plastics

• Break Free From Plastic Pollution Poplite
• At Least 600 Civil Society Groups Worldwide Demand Robust Plastics Treaty | Break Free From Plastic | 22 July 2025
• Manifesto for a Future Free from Plastic Pollution | Break Free From Plastic | 22 July 2025

Positions

• Courage, not compromise – Pacific SIDS call for ambition ahead of final plastics treaty talks in Geneva | SPREP | 2 August 2025
• Including Climate Impacts of Plastics | The Plastics & Climate Project, Environmental Law Institute, University of Wollongong Australia | August 2025
• UN Plastics Treaty: What to Watch for at INC-5.2 | Global Plastic Laws | 31 July 2025
• What to expect as Talks on Plastic Pollution Near the Finish Line at INC-5.2 | Tallash Kantai | IISD | 30 July 2025
• Initial Considerations for INC 5.2. Delivering a treaty that ends plastic pollution – the final negotiating stretch | EIA | 29 July 2025
• Global Plastic Treaty Negotiations. Country Positions | Centre for Science and Environment India | 29 July 2025
• Scientists issue urgent call ahead of final plastics treaty talks: This is the world’s last chance to act | University of Portsmouth | 28 July 2025
• Smoke Signals from the Plastics Treaty: Why Geneva Negotiations Can’t Ignore Health Governance | Health Policy Watch | 27 July 2025
• The UN Plastics Treaty – Youth Demand for a Strong Global Plastics Treaty | End Plastic Pollution Uganda | 25 July 2025
• A global treaty to limit plastic pollution is within reach – will countries seize the moment? | The Conversation |22 July 2025
• AMCEN-20: African environment ministers pledge to back a robust global plastics treaty | Down to Earth | 21 July 2025
• Plastics, Profits and Power: How petrochemical companies are derailing the Global Plastics Treaty | Greenpeace UK | July 2025

Other Resources

• Microplastics in agricultural soils: The role of soil texture in modulating oxygen diffusivity and soil respiration | Jonathan Nuñez, Joaquín Jiménez-Martínez, Andrea Carminati and Denise M. Mitrano | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | October 2025
• Rising Tide to Silent Tsunami: Unveiling the role of plastics in driving antimicrobial resistance | Emily M. Stevenson, Angus Buckling, Matthew Cole, Penelope K. Lindeque, Aimee K. Murray | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 15 August 2025
• Négociations sur les plastiques à Genève : la Suisse appelle à un traité efficace – l’issue reste incertaine | Le portail du Gouvernement suisse | 4 August 2025

• Options for financing the plastics instrument | GEF | August 2025

• Microplastic contaminations in a set of beverages sold in France | Iseline Chaïb, Périne Doyen, Pauline Merveillie et al. | Journal of Food Composition and Analysis | August 2025
• Plastic fishing and aquaculture gear in the Global Plastics Treaty | EIA | 1 August 2025
• Plastic credits, a false solution that legitimises waste colonialism | Renewable Matter EU | 23 July 2025
• Closing the Information Gap in Global Plastics Governance: No Data, No Deal | The Global Ocean Accounts Partnership | 18 July 2025
• AMCEN-20: African environment ministers pledge to back a robust global plastics treaty | Down to Earth | 21 July 2025
• Road to Geneva: Why Just Transition must anchor the Global Plastics Treaty | Down to Earth | 16 July 2025
• This fuel is 50% plastic — and it’s slipping through a loophole in international waste law | GRIST | 15 July 2025
• How to Design an Effective Plastics Treaty in the Face of Uncertainty | Ian Johnstone and Joshua Lincoln | International Peace Institute | 14 July 2025
• O fishing gear, where art thou? | Torbjørn Graff HugoTorbjørn Graff Hugo | 14 July 2025
• UN plastics treaty must match the scale of a silent tsunami | Policy Circle Bureau | 11 July 2025
• They need to listen and act now: Pacific countries ramp up call for high ambition plastic treaty | SPREP | 10 July 2025
• Road to Geneva: We’re enthusiastic but we also understand the challenges in getting plastic treaty | SPREP | 10 July 2025
• New study links chemicals in plastics to heart disease deaths | Observer Reporter | 10 July 202
• SPREP’s growing presence in the North Pacific highlighted at 27th Micronesian Islands Forum | SPREP | 9 July 2025
• Plastics pollution is surging — the planned UN treaty to curb it must be ambitious | Nature | 9 July 2025
• Making the invisible visible: how researchers are using cartoons to explain the hidden harms of plastic pollution| Break Free From Plastic | 9 July 2025
• Mapping the chemical complexity of plastics | L. Monclús, H. P. H. Arp, K. J. Groh, A. Faltynkova, M. E. Løseth, J. Muncke, Z. Wang et al. | Nature | 9 July 2025
• Nanoplastic concentrations across the North Atlantic | Sophie ten Hietbrink, Dušan Materić, Rupert Holzinger, Sjoerd Groeskamp & Helge Niemann | Nature | 9 July 2025
• Why U.S. Business Has A Vested Interest In A Plastic Pollution Treaty | Forbes | 8 July 2025
• “Our Future is Non-Negotiable” – Pacific SIDS Stand Firm on Plastics Treaty Ambition | SPREP | 8 July 2025
• Is Corporate Sustainability Used to Avoid Accountability for the Sachet Problem? | Break Free From Plastic | 8 July 2025
• Road to Geneva: Pacific countries reminded of plastic pollution crisis that directly threatens our Ocean, food systems, way of life | SPREP | 7 July 2025
• Global Plastics Diplomacy Briefing | July 2025
• Almost one million butts collected on No Butts Day 2025! | No Plastic Filter | 5 July 2025
• Microplastic pollution in aquatic environments : insights from the Geneva Summer School | UNIGE | 2 July 2025
• Malaysia strengthens plastic waste controls to close the door on ‘waste colonialism’ from other countries | Environmental Investigation Agency | 1 July 2025
• Negotiating the plastics treaty to protect health and the environment | Chartres N, Grundy Q, Miller FA, Beeler B, Woodruff TJ. | Bull World Health Organization | 1 July 2025
• 5 things you should know about single-use plastics | European Commission | 1 July 2025
• Toxic Butts: What the Plastic Treaty’s Negotiating Text Means for Health, and Liability | Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control | 30 June 2025
• Quick Views: Plastics Treaty INC-5.2 | IPEN | 26 June 2025
• Supply me to the moon… | Torbjørn Graff Hugo | 24 June 2025
• IPEN Co-Chair’s Letter to Delegates Attending the Heads of Delegations Meeting of the Plastics Treaty INC | IPEN | 24 June 2025
• INC 5.2 in Geneva – August 5-14 | Norway | 24 June 2025
• The petrochemical historical bloc: Exposing the extent and depth of opposition to a high-ambition plastics treaty | Peter Dauvergne, Rob Ralston, Jennifer Clapp, and Jack Taggart | Cambridge Prisms: Plastics | 24 June 2025
• Binding the flows: Why trade is central for a global plastics treaty | Maria Ivanova and Jamel Zarrouk | Cambridge Prisms | 23 June 2025
• Petrochemical Investor Statement Re-Opened to Sign | Planet Tracker
• The Global Plastics Treaty must include strict global controls on plastic waste trade | Sedat Gündoğdu, Jim Puckett, Kenan Gedik et al. | Cambridge University Press | 18 June 2025
• Microplastics Have a Concerning Effect on The Microbes in Our Gut | Science Alert | 18 June 2025
• What are the benefits of regulating chemicals of concern | Article 7 on Releases and Leakages: Why is this article important and what could be improved? | Scientists’ Coalition for an Ambitious Plastics Treaty | June 2025 → Access more resources by the Scientists’ Coalition for an Ambitious Plastics Treaty
• Plastics threaten ecosystems and human health, but evidence-based solutions are under political fire | The Conversation | 17 June 2025
• Releases and GHG Emissions Across the Entire Life Cycle of Plastics. Why Addressing Releases and Emissions Must Be a Direct and Clear Priority in the Global Plastic Treaty | Ambition Loop and Global Methane Hub | 2025
• UNOC-3 : 95 pays signent l’Appel de Nice pour un Traité ambitieux sur les plastiques | France | 10 June 2025
• “Nice Declaration” for an ambitious plastics treaty: the wake up call the world needs | Greenpeace International | 10 June 2025
• Don’t Back Down | Civil Society and Rights-Holders Coalition for a Plastics Treaty | 10 June 2025
• Assessment of tire-derived additives and their metabolites into fruit, root and leafy vegetables and evaluation of dietary intake in Swiss adults | Florian Breider, Thibault Masset, Kelyan Prud’homme, Beat J. Brüschweiler | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 15 August 2025
• Getting to Yes on the Plastics Agreement: Time for More Plasticity? | Sue Biniaz, Daniel Bodansky & Maria Ivanova | Just Security | 9 June 2025
• The economic rationale for a Global Plastics Treaty underpinned by mandatory and harmonised regulation | Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty | 5 June 2025
• A Call to Protect Human and Environmental Health in Southeast and East Asia. A Regional Statement on the Microplastics Crisis | IPEN | 5 June 2025
• Pathways to an Effective Plastics Treaty | GAIA | 5 June 2025
• World Environment Day: UN sounds alarm on plastic pollution crisis | UN News | 4 June 2025
• How one Korean province is aiming to make plastic pollution history | UNEP | 3 June 2025
• Everything you should know about microplastics | UNEP | 2 June 2025
• Plastic-Associated Chemicals: Late Lessons from Early Equilibrium Partitioning Science | Heather A. Leslie, Annika Jahnke, Elisa Rojo-Nieto, Hans Peter H. Arp | Environmental Science & Technology | 2 June 2025
• Chemical Recycling: More Pollution? Or a Sustainability Solution for Plastic? | The Debate | May/June 2025
• By making producers part of the solution, France aims to rein in plastic pollution | UNEP | 29 May 2025
• Key Players and Positions in the Global Plastic Treaty Negotiations | Austin Jenish | Earth.Org | 28 May 2025
• Amid efforts to end plastic pollution, millions of waste pickers become a focus | UNEP | 26 May 2025
• Effective progress and implementation of the INC-5 plastics treaty through scientific guidance | Margaret Spring, Patrick Schröder, Anda Popovici, Noreen O’Meara, Ilaria Corsi, et al. | Nature Sustainability | 23 May 2025
• How data is helping cities counter plastic pollution | UNEP | 21 May 2025
• Unpacking the Plastic Value Chain: Litigation Risks and Legal Implications | Planet Tracker | 19 May 2025
• Rallying for an ambitious global plastics treaty | One Earth | 16 May 2025
• Plastics: Exposing Their Climate Impacts, What we know, what need to know, & recommendations for research and policy | The Plastics and Climate Project, the Environmental Law Institute, Monterey Bay Aquarium and University of Wollongong | May 2025
• Health impacts of exposure to synthetic chemicals in food | Jane Muncke, Mathilde Touvier, Leonardo Trasande & Martin Scheringer | Nature Medicine | 16 May 2025
• Preventing corporate capture: Democratic legitimacy and the global plastics treaty | Rob Ralston, Bethanie Carney Almroth, Rachel Radvany, et al. | One Earth | 16 May 2025
• How (Not) to Make a Plastic Treaty: Nothing is Agreed Until Everything is Agreed | Plastisphere | 8 May 2025
• Plastics companies know about chemical recycling’s shortcomings — but still sell it as a solution | Grist | 8 May 2025
• This commonly used plastic chemical caused 350,000 heart disease-related deaths in 1 year | Grist | 6 May 2025
• Identifying gaps in systems-based plastic pollution literature | Nature Sustainability | 2 May 2025
• Global Plastics Diplomacy Briefing | May 2025
• A final push to end plastic pollution | UNEP | 1 May 2025
• What are the health impacts of plastic? | Yale Climate Connections | 1 May 2025
• Phthalate exposure from plastics and cardiovascular disease: global estimates of attributable mortality and years life lost | Sara Hyman, Jonathan Acevedo, Chiara Giannarelli, Leonardo Trasande | eBioMedicine | 29 April 2025
• Study finds every tested plastic toy contains chemicals linked to cancer and reproductive disorders | Daily Nations | 24 April 2025
• The journey from INC-5.1 to 5.2 | Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty | 23 April 2025
  
• GAIA Comments on the Chair’s Text | GAIA | April 2025
• Complexities of the global plastics supply chain revealed in a trade-linked material flow analysis | Khaoula Houssini, Jinhui Li & Quanyin Tan | Communications Earth & Environment | 10 April 2025
• Plastic pellet losses: Council and Parliament agree on new rules to reduce microplastic pollution | European Council | 8 April 2025
• Countdown to INC-5.2: The final push for a Global Plastics Treaty | Minderoo Foundation
• Source, fate and effects of plastic litters in the European land-sea continuum | Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 7 April 2025
• Impacts of spilled debris from the X-Press Pearl disaster in Sri Lanka on marine plankton | Sinja Rist, Kevin Ugwu, Marta Sampalo, Therese M. Karlsson et al. | Environmental Research | 1 March 2025
• Unmasking the Myth of Sustainable Waste Management | Yuyun Ismawati Drwiega | 31 March 2025
• Objective in sight | Torbjørn Graff Hugo | 31 March 2025
• Coca-Cola’s Annual Plastic Footprint Forecasted to Grow to 9.1 Billion Pounds by 2030 | Oceana | 26 March 2025
• Survey: Policymakers concerned over health risks of plastics, see production cuts as solution| Greenpeace | 24 March 2025
• Setting the Stage for INC-5.2 | EIA | 20 March 2025
• Plastic Banks. Assessing European Retail Banks’ Attitude Towards Plastic Risk | Planet Tracker | 20 March 2025
• Indigenous Peoples fight to be heard at plastics treaty talks | Dialogue Earht | 20 March 2025
• Plastic’s dirty secret – it’s making climate change worse | Greenpeace | 19 March 2025
• Reinventing the meaning of plastic pollution is not the solution | Torbjørn Graff Hugo | Medium | 19 March 2025
• North Sea collision plastic pollution clean-up is a “race against time” | oceonographic | 19 March 2025
• Microplastic within humans now a health crisis: Interview with ‘Plastic People’ filmmakers | 9 Mar 2025
• Chewing gum is plastic pollution, not a litter problem | David Jones, School of the Environment and Life Sciences, University of Portsmouth | The Conversation | 17 March 2025
• Human health evidence in the global treaty to end plastic pollution: a survey of policy perspectives | Megan Deeney, Joe Yates, Suneetha Kadiyala, Xavier Cousin et al. | Cambridge Prisms: Plastics| 7 March 2025
  
• Addressing the toxic chemicals problem in plastics recycling | Bethanie Carney Almroth, Eric Carmona, Nnaemeka Chukwuone et al. | Cambridge Prisms: Plastics | 16 January 2025

In the Media

• Global plastics treaty talks resume in Geneva: Is this the ‘world’s last chance’ to act? | Euronews | 3 August 2025
• Plastics treaty must address production | Foreign Policy
• La Suisse sous pression alors qu’elle accueille des négociations internationales contre la pollution au plastique | Le Temps | 29 July 2025
• Ambition or compromise? Geneva plastics treaty talks test global resolve | Geneva Solutions | 28 July 2025
• Genève, dernière escale pour un traité sur la pollution plastique | Tribune de Genève | 27 July 2025
• Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks | Damian Carrington | The Guardian | 23 July 2025
• Metal bottle caps ‘surprising’ source of microplastic contamination, study finds | The Guardian | 21 July 2025
• To ‘make recycling work,’ can plastics treaty fix ‘artificially low’ virgin prices? | Plastics News | 17 July 2025
• Global Plastics Talks Set to Resume Next Month Must Prioritize Environment and Health, Experts Say | Inside Climate News | 9 July 2025
• Campaigners Welcome ‘Wake-Up Call’ For Global Plastics Treaty | Forbes | 11 June 2025
• The world of plastic | Alliance Magazine | 5 June 2025
• The Health Crisis That Could Make or Break the UN Plastics Treaty | Health Policy Watch | 22 May 2025
• Starch-based bioplastic may be as toxic as petroleum-based plastic, study finds | The Guardian | 13 May 2025
• Cook Islands calls for ban on harmful chemicals in plastics to protect Pacific | Cook Islands News | 1 May 2025
• Study finds every tested plastic toy contains chemicals linked to cancer and reproductive disorders | Daily Nations | 24 April 2025
• Scientists sound alarm after making disturbing discovery while studying human brains: ‘This stuff is increasing in our world exponentially’ | Kritiksha Sharma | Yahoo News | 14 April 2025
• What Are Microplastics Doing in our Body? This Lab is Racing to Find Out | New York Times | 8 April 2025
• ASEAN’s Position in Plastic Treaty Negotiations: Paper Tiger, Plastic Dragon? | Yuyun Ismawati and Wong Pui Yi | The Diplomat | 4 April 2025
• Microplastics could be hotspots for antimicrobial resistance | Advance Science News | 3 April 2025
• Danone’s aborted energy from waste project on Bali highlights need for plastics treaty | Reuters | 25 March 2025
• Invite-only meeting revives hope for a global plastic treaty | Luxembourg Times | 20 March 2025

About the International Negotiating Committee to Develop a Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution Process

For several years, plastic pollution has been a major issue raised at the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) and other global fora.

In March 2022, a historical resolution was adopted at the 5th session of the United Nations Environment Assembly – End plastic pollution: towards an international legally binding instrument (UNEA 5/14), recognizing that “the high and rapidly increasing levels of plastic pollution represent a serious environmental problem at a global scale, negatively impacting the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainable development”. It mandated the UN Environment Programme Executive Director to convene an International Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop and adopt a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution based on a comprehensive approach that addresses the full life cycle of plastics.

Pre INC-5.2 Sessions

The first five meetings for the development of the international legally binding agreement on plastic pollution took place in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Preparatory Events

Ahead of INC-5.2, actors from Geneva and beyond are mobilized through the organization of events and webinars to gather expertise and share the most advanced scientific knowledge.

Key Events and Activities in the Run-up to INC-5.2

Various key events and activities that generated momentum towards INC-5.2 took place in Geneva in the context of related negotiations and events, including:

World Environment Day Celebration 2025 | Multilateral Geneva Collectively Acting to Beat Plastic Pollution

The World Environment Day annual celebration, focusing on the theme “Putting an End to Global Plastic Pollution”, took place from 09:00 to 12:00 CEST at the International Environment House II around key moments including a breakfast offered by the host country, the GENeva World Environment Day Forum and the World Environment Day Dialogue.

Executive Briefing on Plastic Pollution INC-5.2

The Executive Briefing featured presentations from the host country, Switzerland, the INC Chair and INC Executive Secretary, providing updates on preparations for the upcoming INC-5.2 as well as other activities taking place in parallel.

78th World Health Assembly (WHA78)

WHA78 made links between plastic pollution and public health concerns.

2025 Meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (2025 BRS COPs)

A Ministerial Breakfast on Plastic INC was hosted by UNEP Executive Director on 1 May 2025, at Geneva Room, Varembé Centre.

Geneva Beat Plastic Pollution Dialogues

Through the Geneva Beat Plastic Pollution Dialogues, the Geneva Environment Network and its partners support actors in the Geneva community and beyond, that are engaged in the INC process and other processes tackling plastic pollution. Ahead of INC-5.2, the co-conveners of the Geneva Beat Plastic Pollution Dialogues organized events relevant to the upcoming negotiations.

Other Sessions Ahead of INC-5.2

A compilation of resources and activities – including conferences, receptions, artistic and cultural demonstrations – taking place in the margins of INC-5.2 can be accessed here.

• Protecting Our Shores | Join the Beach Cleanup & Marine Awareness | Green Earth Action Foundation | 30 July 2025 | 14:00 CEST | Baby Plage, Geneva & Online
• Country Positions on the Global Plastic Treaty | CSEI | 29 July 2025 | 08:30 CEST
• Launch of the Regional Plastics Outlook for Southeast and East Asia | OECD Green Talks LIVE | 30 July 2025 | 10:00-11:15 CEST
• Plastics in healthcare: Navigating the balance among access, health, and sustainability | Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care at the University of Toronto | 24 July 2025 | 14:00 CEST
• INC5.2: Plastics Treaty Primer | GAIA | 24 July 2025 | 16:00 CEST
• ICC / Innovation Alliance – Financing Solutions for Innovation to Deliver on an Effective Global Plastics Treaty | Innovation Alliance for a Global Plastics Treaty & International Chamber of Commerce | 23 July 2025 | 14:00 CEST
• Observers’ webinar | INC Secretariat | 23 July 2025 | 14:00 – 16:00 CEST | Zoom
• The Global Plastic Treaty Explained: Key Elements and What’s at Stake | CSEI | 22 July 2025 | 23:30 CEST
• A Call for Help – Building a Monument for the Global Plastics Treaty | Corde Coffee Coutance | 19 July 2025 | 14:00
• Promoting Evidence-based Policymaking to Tackle Marine Plastic Pollution in Asia-Pacific | Japan | 18 July 2025 | 09:30-11:15 CEST
• No data, no deal: why science and data must drive final plastics treaty negotiations | Global Ocean Account Partnerships | 17 July 2025 | 14:00 CEST
• Key Enablers for Accelerating Investment in Plastics Circularity | 15 July 2025 | Financing Coordination Group | 15:00 CEST
• Webinar: Towards INC -5.2 : A plastic pollution treaty including Subnational and Local Governments | Local and Subnational Governments Coalition | 15 July 2025 | 09:00 or 17:00 CEST
• Towards a Meaningful Plastics Treaty: Priorities and Challenges Ahead of INC-5.2 | World Resources Forum 2025 Side Event | Group for Sustainability and Technology (SusTec) at ETH Zurich | 10 July 2025 | 15:30 – 17:00 CEST
• The Right to Break Free from the Carbon Lock-in of Plastics | Geneva Rights and Climate Talks & Beat Plastic Pollution Dialogues | 4 July 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 CEST
• Kids’ Virtual Plastic Pollution Act-Athon | Action Network | 25 June 2025 | 20:00 CEST
• Cultivating change: Agri-plastics and the global policy response | FAO Liaison Office in Geneva & FAO’s Office of Climate Change and Biodiversity | 19 June 2025 from 15:00 CEST
• Tackling Agricultural Plastics for a Circular Future | UNEP in collaboration with the One Planet Network, International Ecosystem Management Partnership, Green Growth Knowledge Partnership and FARM programme | 17 June 2025 from 14:00 CEST
• How EPR Systems Can Be Leveraged to Boost Sustainability | Global Action Partnership for Extended Producer Responsibility | 3 June 2025 | 10 CEST
• GPML World Environment Day Webinar: Pre-Launch of the Global Plastics Hub | Global Partnership on Plastic Pollution and Marine Litter (GPML) | 29 May 2025 | 14:00 – 15:30 CEST
• WBG-UNITAR Webinar: Unlocking Private Investment through EPR | WBG & UNITAR | 29 May 2025
• Towards a Strong Global Plastics Treaty: Legal Obligations and Strategic Pathways | Gallifrey Foundation, EIA, UNODC, Ocean Vision Legal | 21 May 2025 | 10:00 – 11:00 CEST | Zoom
• Chemical transparency information and its traceability in products and articles, with a focus on POPs and chemicals in plastics | Health and Environment Justice Support | 7 May 2025 | 18:15 – 19:45 CEST | CICG, Room 2 & Online
• New strategies for dealing with microplastics as a potential threat to humans and the natural environment | Russian Federation | 7 May 2025 | 18:15 – 19:45 CEST | CICG, Room 14 & Online
• Plastics Chemicals of Concern and the Role of Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions and Youth as Drivers of Change in the Future Plastics Treaty | AKO Foundation with Environment Youth Action Network (EYAN), Environmental Protection Agency- Ghana, African Youth Alliance for Chemicals and waste (AYACW), Global Environment Facility (GEF), International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN Youth) and GEN | 8 May 2025 | 13:15–14:45 CEST | CICG, Room B & Online
• Preventing Plastic and E-Waste Trafficking: Lessons from the Frontlines | 2025 BRS COPs Side Event | 4 May 2025 | CICG, Room 2 & online | 18:15 – 19:45 CEST
• Empowering Education and Effective Capacity Building to Tackle Plastic Pollution | 2025 BRS COPs Side Event | 4 May 2025 | CICG, Exhibition Area | 18:15 – 19:45 CEST
• Plastic Pollution and Transparency in Trade Flows in the Context Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the Protection of the Environment and Health | BRS COPs Side Event | 2 May 2025 | CICG, Exhibition Area | 13:15 – 14:45 CEST
• From hidden threats to visible actions: Addressing POPs and Nano/Microplastic Waste | 2025 BRS COPs Side Event | 30 April 2025 | CICG, Room 2 | 18:15 – 19:45 CEST
• Discussion on the urgent need to regulate chemical use in plastic to protect human and planetary health | Minderoo Foundation | Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue | 30 April 2025 | 18.30 CEST.
• Addressing chemicals of concern in plastics: Pathways to protection of the environment and human health in the plastics treaty | Mexico, Switzerland, TESS | 29 April 2025 | Domaine de La Pastorale & online | 13:30 to 14:30 CEST.
• Bootcamp on Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) for YOUth (Recording of the events available)
• Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR): Reshaping the Future of Plastics | World Bank Global Environment Department, UNITAR, PROBLUE | 10 April 2025 | 14:00 CEST
• Turning the Tide on Plastic Pollution in the Mediterranean: From Knowledge to Action | IUCN | 1 April 2025 | 13:15 – 14:45 CEST
• SIDS Talk Ocean webinar series: “Special Circumstances of SIDS in International Law‘ | AOSIS | 27 March 2025 | 20:00 CET

Who To Follow on LinkedIn

• INC Bureau & Secretariat | Luis Vayas Valdivieso | Jyoti Mathur-Filipp| Asha Challenger
• Scientists & Researchers | | Bethanie Carney Almroth | | Melissa Wang | | Win Cowger | Neil Tangri | Karen Raubenheimer | Niko Urho | Jonas Enge | Laura Monclús Anglada | Food Packaging Forum
• Business | Business For A Plastics Treaty | Jodie Roussell | Ellen MacArthur Foundation | Ambrogio Miserocchi | Plastics Europe
• Beyond Plastics
• Break Free From Plastic
• CIEL | Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) | David Azoulay | | Daniela Durán González
• Children and Youth Major Group to UNEP
• EIA | Environmental Investigation Agency | Tim Grabiel | Christina Dixon | Amy Youngman
• IPEN | IPEN (International Pollutants Elimination Network) | Bjorn Beeler | Yuyun Ismawati Drwiega | Vito A. Buonsante
• GRID-Arendal | GRID-Arendal | Ieva Rucevska
• Minderoo Foundation | Minderoo Foundation | Sarah Dunlop
• TESS | Forum on Trade, Environment & the SDGs (TESS) | | Mahesh Sugathan
• The Pew Charitable Trusts | The Pew Charitable Trusts | Winnie Lau
• UN Trade and Development | UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) | Chantal Line Carpentier | David Vivas Eugui | Henrique Pacini
• UNEP | UN Environment Programme | Inger Andersen | Marcos Ierides | Llorenç Milà i Canals
• UNEP FI | United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) | Peggy Lefort
• WWF | WWF | Eirik Lindebjerg

Who To Follow on X (Twitter)

• INC Chair, H.E. Amb. Luis Vayas Valdivieso from Ecuador | @LuisVayasEc
• Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, Executive Secretary, Secretariat for the Plastics INC | @MathurFilipp
• INC Vice-Chair, H.E. Amb. Gustavo Meza-Cuadra Velásquez from Peru | @GustavoMezaCua1
• High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution | @HACplastic
• Center for International Environment Law | @CIEL_tweets | Andrés Del Castillo | Giulia Carlini | Carroll Muffett | Jane Patton | Rachel Radvany | David Azoulay
• Forum on Trade, Environment & the SDGs | @TESSForum
• International Union for Conservation of Nature | @IUCN_Plastics
• International Pollutants Elimination Network | @ToxicsFree | Vito A. Buonsante
• Break Free From Plastic | @brkfreeplastic
• Environmental Investigation Agency | @EIA_news | Christina Dixon
• International Alliance of Waste Pickers | @globalrec_org
• Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives | @GAIAnoburn
• Scientists engaged in plastics research & INC process | Zhanyun Wang | Steve and Deonie Allen | Bethanie Carney Almroth | Scientists’ Coalition for Effective PlasticsTreaty | Idun Rognerud | Marina Fernandez
• Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty | @BizForTreaty @WWF & Ellen MacArthur Foundation @circulareconomy
• Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UNEP | @andersen_inger
• Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions | @brsmeas | Kei Ohno Woodall
• Children & Youth Major Group to UNEP | @cymgunep