US EditionScientists Issue Urgent Call Ahead of Final Plastics Treaty Talks
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, JUL 28 – Negotiators aim to finalize a treaty addressing plastic production, waste management, and health risks as 30,000 tonnes of plastic enter oceans daily, WWF said.
- Governments are scheduled to meet again in Geneva in August 2025 to complete negotiations on the international treaty addressing plastic pollution, known as INC-5.2.
- The negotiations follow prolonged delays due to deadlock and obstruction by some states, despite a global consensus on the urgent need for a treaty.
- WWF and scientists emphasize the treaty must include binding global bans on harmful plastics and address human health and environmental impacts to be effective.
- Professor Steve Fletcher emphasized that this treaty represents a crucial challenge to determine if global leadership is willing to effectively regulate plastics, while WWF cautioned that postponing action only intensifies the complexity and risks associated with resolving this environmental crisis.
- Failing to finalize a strong treaty could perpetuate plastic pollution, increasing global costs and regulatory burdens, especially for developing nations like Jamaica.
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The World Is Watching and Waiting for a Strong Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution
Next week, governments from around the world will meet in Geneva for the final global plastic pollution treaty negotiations (INC-5.2). WWF calls on global governments to explore all available pathways to finally make good on the commitment made in March 2022 to forge a strong, legally binding global treaty that can put an end to the plastic pollution crisis. Otherwise, we risk leaving the negotiations with a weak treaty that will perpetuate this…
The WWF calls for a legally binding global agreement to end plastic pollution. One call states that the most harmful and avoidable plastic products and the hazardous chemicals contained in them must be gradually banned.
The invention, proliferation and terrible management of plastics are one of the worst damage that humans have done to ourselves, to the environment and to the rest of the living beings with which we share planet and to which we are slowly but inexorably killing. It has been proven that even the smallest of the creatures already have in their nano and microplastic organism and the real extent of the damage that these particles can cause to organi…
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