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Today at 2:50 pm, Luis Vayas Valdivieso, Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting for a Plastics Treaty, released a new text for negotiations. The proposal lacks all the key components that civil society groups and high ambition countries have been asking for to effectively address the plastic pollution crisis. 

Civil society organizations from Southeast Asia which are pushing for an ambitious and effective treaty see negotiators "trading away health and future generations in favour of an easy path to a weak treaty." Below is their press release.

Four days into the final Global Plastics Treaty negotiations, we are not on track to deliver a treaty that will protect people and nature. Enough is enough; something must change. We are joining the voices of waste pickers, frontline communities, scientists, healthcare professionals, children and youth, women, businesses, and non-governmental organisations around the world, calling on governments to step up. Fix the process, keep your promise, and finalise a meaningful treaty to end plastic pollution.

Industry presence threatens plastics treaty integrity at INC-5.2 as 234 lobbyists affiliated with the fossil fuel and petrochemicals industry registered to participate at the resumed fifth round of negotiations for a global legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution. The following press release was originally published by the Center for International Environmental Law on www.ciel.org.

During the opening plenary of INC-5.2 (the final scheduled round of negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty), John Beard Jr. with Port Arthur Community Action Network offered the following intervention on behalf of the Break Free From Plastic movement, while colleagues representing indigenous peoples and other fenceline communities stood behind him in solidarity