GENEVA, August 13, 2025 — Upon release of an updated draft plastics treaty text from the chair, Center for International Environmental Law Head of Delegation and Environmental Health Program Director issued the following reaction:
“The new chair’s text makes a mockery of a three-year-long consultative process that showed broad support for an ambitious plastics treaty that addresses the full lifecycle of plastics, including production. While there are token references to UNDRIP, human rights, and human health, the provisions that follow undermine any and all measures that follow. This is a treaty that all but ensures that nothing will change. It gives in to petrostate and industry demands with weak, voluntary measures that guarantee we continue to produce plastic at increasing levels indefinitely, fail to safeguard human health, endanger the environment, and damn future generations. It will be very difficult to come back from this, and we encourage Member States to reject the text.”
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