How India helped scuttle the global plastics treaty | Policy Circle India’s opposition to the global plastics treaty may invite trade and climate risks and deepen ecological harm.

By siding with petrochemical exporters, India weakens the #UNplasticstreaty and risks neocolonial dependency. #plasticpollution
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Three reasons plastic pollution treaty talks ended in disagreement and deadlock (but not collapse) | The-14 UN plastics treaty talks end in deadlock due to weak drafts, entrenched positions & refusal to vote; next steps need political will, alliances & decisive action

Three reasons plastic pollution treaty talks ended in disagreement and deadlock (but not collapse)
#PlasticPollution #UNPlasticsTreaty #GlobalAction #ClimateAction #PlasticWaste #Sustainability #EcoPolicy #PlasticFree #PlasticCrisis #GreenPolicy
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Plastic pollution talks adjourn, but countries want to stay engaged: UNEP chief The international push for consensus on a legally binding deal to end plastic pollution proved beyond the grasp of weary UN Member States meeting in Geneva on Friday, as they agreed to resume discussions at a future date.

Plastic pollution talks adjourn, but countries want to stay engaged: UNEP chief

#PlasticPollution #UNPlasticsTreaty #NiceWakeUpCall #UNOC3

Failure of talks for plastic treaty turn focus back to reduce, reuse, recycle. How's that going? Global talks to slash plastic production and the toxic chemicals used to produce plastic products fell apart in Geneva this week.

Failed #UNPlasticsTreaty
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Globales Abkommen gegen Plastikmüll vorerst gescheitert Bis zum Ende hin waren die Positionen zu unversöhnlich: Nun ist klar, dass Verhandlungen in Genf über ein UN-Plastikabkommen vorerst gescheitert sind. Rund 180 Länder konnten sich nicht auf einen Vert...

Scheitern mit Ansage...

#UNPlasticsTreaty #EndPlasticPollution

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UN-Konferenz in Genf: Abkommen zu Plastikmüll droht zu scheitern UN-Konferenz in Genf: Plastikmüll soll verringert werden. Doch ein neuer Entwurf droht das Abkommen zu kippen. Es folgt scharfe Kritik

"Der Text ist ein Geschenk an die petrochemische Industrie und ein Verrat an der Menschheit"

(Kurzfristige) Wirtschaftliche Interessen sind offensichtlich wichtiger, als eine halbwegs lebenswerte Erde... 🤦‍♂️

#UNPlasticsTreaty #EndPlasticPollution

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Trump administration memo urges countries to reject plastic production caps in UN treaty - Sight Magazine The United States has sent letters to at least a handful of countries urging them to reject the goal of a global pact, according to documents.

Trump administration memo urges countries to reject plastic production caps in UN treaty @sightmagazine.bsky.social #UNplasticstreaty #plasticspollution #plasticstreaty #US #DonaldTrump #USStateDepartment #plastics

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Taking a moment of calm in Geneva ahead of 2 wks of #PlasticTreaty negotiations

Taking views of Mount Blanc appearing from the clouds as a good omen for what lies ahead. Together we can reach the summit to deliver an effective treaty
#UNplasticsTreaty #plasticpollution #INC52 @unep.org

@bangoruniversity.bsky.social @sosbangor.bsky.social #plasticpollution #UNPlasticsTreaty

@sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social #PlasticPollution #INC52 #INC5 #UNPlasticsTreaty

#PlasticsTreaty #UNPlasticsTreaty #INC5.2 @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @sosbangor.bsky.social @theconversation.com

#UNPlasticsTreaty #PlasticsTreaty #productdesign #plasticpollution

Five Bangor University researchers selected for prestigious Welsh Crucible programme Five researchers from Bangor University have been awarded coveted places in the 2025 Welsh Crucible, an award-winning programme designed to foster personal, professional, and leadership development am...

Wonderful news that one of our very own Welsh Crucible Champions @winniecj.bsky.social will be participating in the historic UN Global Plastics Treaty negotiations in August #UNPlasticsTreaty.

How would regulating plastic associated chemicals of concern (Article 3 of the chair text) benefit human & environmental health and aid with effective implementation of the #UNPlasticsTreaty ?

Read more in @scientistscoa.bsky.social short policy brief 👇

'A Wake-Up Call from the Womb'—Indigenous People Rally for a Binding Plastics Treaty NICE, France, Jun 11 (IPS) - As the sun peeked through the French Riviera clouds and a dozen reporters sipped orange juice aboard the WWF Panda Boat docked at Port Lympia, Frankie Orona, a Native American rights advocate from the Society of Native Nations in San Antonio, Texas, stunned the room into a moment of absolute stillness.

'A Wake-Up Call from the Womb'—Indigenous People Rally for a Binding Plastics Treaty

#PlasticPollution #UNPlasticsTreaty #NiceWakeUpCall #UNOC3

🌍 On #WorldEnvironmentDay, we join the call to #BeatPlasticPollution.
Norway works globally & with 🇸🇬 Singapore to cut plastic waste — from green maritime tech to circular economy solutions.
Cleaner oceans start with shared action. 🌊♻️

#NorwaySingapore #UNPlasticsTreaty #SG60xNorway120

Happy to mark #WorldEnvironmentDay–#BeatPlasticPollution. Grateful to @ASEF for last month's chance to share 🇳🇴 Norway’s vision for the UN plastic treaty. We need strong global commitment to reach an effective and urgently needed agreement.

🌍♻️ #UNPlasticsTreaty #Sustainability #SG60xNorway120

Plastics aren’t just a pollution problem; they’re a climate issue.

🧪 A new study breaks it down, and we’re talking about it on May 14 with WRI and The Plastics & Climate Project.
💥 Just in time for World Environment Day.
RSVP: bit.ly/3EGt8dc 

#PlasticsAndClimate #UNPlasticsTreaty

🌍 Systems-level action that connects plastics with biodiversity, climate change, food security, nutrition, and human rights.

With collective action we can build safer, healthier, and more sustainable food systems that combat the hidden costs of #plasticpollution

#UNPlasticsTreaty

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Plastics matter in the food system - Communications Earth & Environment Pollution across the entire plastic lifecycle is a system-wide risk to food. Aspirational indicators related to plastic polymers and chemicals, land use, trade, and waste, environmental and human...

📢 ‘Plastics matter in the food system’

Food systems a source and victim of #plasticpollution, impacting human and planetary health.

This issue is missing from global policy, scientific research, and food systems monitoring #UNPlasticsTreaty

📑Read in full: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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adidas, stoppt den Polyesterwahnsinn Warum ist das wichtig? Die Modeindustrie hat einen großen Anteil an der Plastikverschmutzung. Weltweit stammt ein beachtlicher Teil des Mikroplastiks, das ins Meer gelangt, aus synthetischen Textilien...

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clothes can cause serious illness. Having learned about this study, we feel that an effective global #UNPlasticsTreaty, by now, is so urgent, to lower the concentration levels of polyester #microfibers! 📣

#UNPlasticsTreaty

#ClimateActionNow

Fossil fuel lobbyists at #COP29, plastics lobbyists at the #UNPlasticsTreaty talks...

Would we invite the tobacco industry to a conference on cancer? 🤨

Countries remain divided as fifth UN plastics treaty talks begin - Sight Magazine Delegates from 175 countries gathered in Busan, South Korea, for talks aimed at securing an international treaty to curb plastic pollution.

Countries remain divided as fifth UN plastics treaty talks begin @sightmagazine.bsky.social #UNplasticstreaty #plasticpollution #INC5 #UNplasticsummit #Busan #SouthKorea

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