ASH joins the Cease Tobacco Air pollution Alliance in attending the second session of the fifth Intergovernmental Negotiating Convention (INC-5.2) of the United Nations Treaty to Finish Plastic Air pollution in Geneva, Switzerland from August 5 – 14, 2025. ASH’s Government Director Laurent Huber will share updates and progress right here for our neighborhood to remain engaged and knowledgeable.
At the moment, August 15, 2025 at 10:00 am Geneva time – ASH stands with the excessive ambition nations that refused to just accept the fatally weak textual content provided by nations that profit from plastic manufacturing.
No treaty is best than a weak treaty that is determined by voluntary actions, falls brief on what is required to adequately tackle plastic harms and has no possibility for future enchancment.
Whereas a majority of nations needed to see a significant treaty, a minority managed to stall the method by means of this whole spherical of negotiations.
The failure can also be because of the UN Environmental Program tradition and course of that fully ignores conflicts of curiosity, which allowed extraordinarily excessive interference from business.
ASH and the Cease Tobacco Air pollution Alliance (STPA) will proceed to watch and have interaction within the course of to struggle for well being, the well being of the surroundings and to make sure that one of the littered plastic gadgets on the earth – cigarette butts – are addressed.
Whereas these negotiations had been a disappointment, ASH will maximize on one other UN treaty, the WHO Framework Conference on Tobacco Management, which is assembly this November and can tackle tobacco product waste. We are going to proceed to advertise a ban on cigarette filters.
ASH’s Key Factors for INC-5.2 can be found to evaluate in: English
