global plastics treaty

Global plastics treaty, INC-5 closes without agreement and is postponed to 2025

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano At 2.50 a.m. of Monday, 2 December in Busan, South Korea, the fifth round of negotiations (INC-5) ...

Global plastics treaty: is a weak agreement better than none at all?

This article is available also in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The fifth and final round of negotiations (INC-5) for a Global Plastics Treaty begins today, Novem...

Alien Entities: How Chemical Pollution Threatens the Global Ecosystem

Since 2009, the Planetary Boundaries have been one of the most effective displays of the main drivers of global ecosystem crises, their “progress”, and their interconnections. In this fr...

Planet vs Plastic, the Hidden Cost of an Unwise Use

The industrial production of plastic began around 1950 and has increased exponentially in the years since, substantially exceeding that of any other manufactured material.  A 2020 study publish...

Global plastics treaty, third round of negotiations closes without agreement

The third round of negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty (INC-3) ended on the evening of Sunday, Nov. 19 without agreement on how to move forward. The INC Secretariat was mandated to draft ...

Global plastics treaty negotiations, more lobbyists than G7 delegates

An analysis of the participants present at the third round of negotiations (INC-3) for the global plastics treaty found that the number of lobbyists related to the fossil fuel and chemical industrie...

Global Plastics Treaty: the scientists' response to the zero draft

The zero draft of the Global Plastic Treaty released in early September offers a wide range of options, some of which have the potential to result in an effective legally binding instrument to ...