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With only half of the week spent on substantive discussion, treaty negotiations end with lackluster outcomes
Paris, France – The second meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-2) for a global agreement to end plastic pollution concluded today at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris with civil society organizations appealing to governments not to allow the use of dilatory tactics and procedural questions to set back progress and lower the ambition of […]
With only half of the week spent on substantive discussion, treaty negotiations end with lackluster outcomes
Paris, France – The second meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-2) for a global agreement to end plastic pollution concluded today at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris with civil society organizations appealing to governments not to allow the use of dilatory tactics and procedural questions to set back progress and lower the ambition of […]
An abbreviated version of this statement was read in the INC-2 closing plenary on June 2nd, 2023. UNESCO HQ by Satyarupa Shekhar, BFFP Asia Pacific Coordinator. Break Free From Plastic is a global movement of over 3000 organizations representing millions of people who share a common goal - a future free from plastic pollution. As […]
PH fisherfolk to corporations and governments: end single-use plastics, adopt a strong plastics treaty
Manila — In celebration of National Fisherfolk Day on May 31, 2023, fishing communities and civil society organizations (CSOs) held a creative picket and protest calling on fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs) companies to stop using plastics in their product packaging, especially sachets. The groups, led by PANGISDA Pilipinas—a national organization of small-scale fisherfolk—also asked […]
PH fisherfolk to corporations and governments: end single-use plastics, adopt a strong plastics treaty
By BFFP Asia Pacific
PH fisherfolk to corporations and governments: end single-use plastics, adopt a strong plastics treaty
In celebration of National Fisherfolk Day and amid INC-2 negotiations for global plastics treaty, Philippine fishing communities and civil society organizations held a creative picket and protest calling on fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs) companies to stop using plastics in their product packaging, and urged governments to adopt a strong plastics treaty.
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