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URGENT | PROFITS OVER LIFE: A PLASTICS TREATY ALREADY DEAD ON ARRIVAL
Press release 

Centre Europe – Tiers Monde (CETIM) – 14 August 2025

From August 5 to 14, 2025, UN Member States met in Geneva for what was supposed to be the final round of negotiations on the International Treaty on Plastic Pollution. Instead of an ambitious and binding agreement, talks collapsed under the influence of transnational corporations (TNCs) and oil-producing States.

Major petrochemical giants, including Dow, ExxonMobil, and Shell, sent hundreds of lobbyists to block measures on reducing plastic production and legal accountability. The latest draft removes all binding commitments, making any final deal meaningless for people and the planet.

CETIM denounces this corporate capture and warns: without strong measures to cut production and hold polluters accountable, there will be no real treaty—only a licence for continued plastic pollution.

See our press release: https://www.cetim.ch/profits-over-life-a-plastic-treaty-already-dead-on-arrival/

 

Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution

Second Part of the Fifth Session (INC-5.2).  5 – 14 August 2025, Geneva, Switzerland

The second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2), is scheduled to take place from 5 to 14 August 2025 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

The resumed session will be preceded by regional consultations on 4 August 2025.  The first part of the fifth session (INC-5.1) took place from 25 November to 1 December 2024 in Busan, Republic of Korea. The Chair’s Text released on 1 December 2024.The draft report of the INC on the work of the first part of its fifth session.