In a little over two months from now, civil society groups, anti-pollution campaigners, and representatives of governments and oil-producing nations are meeting in Geneva to negotiate a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution.
In March 2022, the world came together to agree on a groundbreaking UNEA resolution 5/14 to ‘End Plastic Pollution.’ The resolution gave rise to the possibility of framing a global set of rules governing all the countries to deal with plastic pollution and mandated the creation of an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to arrive at a legally binding instrument.
After four rounds of negotiations in Punte Del Este, Paris, Nairobi and Ottawa, the world is now heading to the fifth and final round of negotiations in Busan, South Korea, between 25 November and 2 December 2024.
The INC member states and parties have engaged in an intricate negotiation process based on the revised zero draft presented during the fourth round of the negotiations (INC4) in April 2024. The negotiations have reflected complex geopolitical factors at work, with nations producing fossil fuels, natural gas, petrochemicals and plastics casting doubts on the strength of the legally binding instrument.
Based on publicly available session submissions made during INC4, the Delhi-based NGO Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) analyzed and mapped the positions of all the countries that have participated in the negotiations.
CSE will officially release this briefing document at a webinar – the third and final in the series – ‘The Plastic Parleys’ on 19 November 2024.
CSE will officially release this briefing document at a webinar – the third and final in the series – ‘The Plastic Parleys’ on 19 November 2024.
The expert panel will explain what to expect from INC-5 in Busan and whether the world will have a strong treaty in the last and final round of the negotiations.
Among the panelists are Sunita Narain, director general, CSE, Atin Biswas, program director CSE, Siddharth G Singh, program manager CSE, Julius Piercy from the UK government, Andreas B Schei from Norway, and Amy Youngman from the UK.
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