The ASH Staff is in Geneva for the Eleventh Convention of the Events (COP11) of the WHO Framework Conference on Tobacco Management (FCTC) from November 17 – 22, 2025. We are going to share updates and progress right here for our neighborhood to remain engaged and knowledgeable all through COP11.
November 22, 2025 – The theme of COP 11 was “Uniting Generations for a Tobacco-Free Future;” a theme which turned out to be an apt indicator of the progress that was made.
Article 2.1- Ahead Trying Measures
Upfront of the COP, an Knowledgeable Group met and drafted a report on Article 2.1 of the FCTC- Ahead Trying Measures. The Determination invited Events to notice the report and contemplate the forward-looking measures within the report, in addition to every other potential choices.
PASSED!
Article 18- Surroundings
The Determination invitations Events to strengthen FCTC Article 18 on the surroundings by establishing a coordination mechanism, growing science-based research and analysis, growing consciousness campaigns, figuring out, exposing, and countering greenwashing, and contemplating complete regulatory choices.
PASSED!
Article 19
There was additionally an Knowledgeable Group report on Legal responsibility, Article 19, which listed 30 suggestions for international locations on legal responsibility choices together with civil, prison, administrative, environmental, and human rights legal responsibility. Nation Events are invited to contemplate these suggestions and to contemplate the instruments and assets out there to strengthen their implementation of Article 19.
PASSED!
Whereas ASH’s key precedence factors had been all handed by the COP, they had been exhausting fought. From inside and out of doors of the COP, the tobacco trade fought again each step of the best way. A number of nation Events are both trade pleasant or have been infiltrated by the trade, making discussions and consensus increasingly more troublesome. Nevertheless, because the Selections above clearly illustrate, when civil society and governments come collectively to combat again, we are able to make vital progress.
