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 Govt Director Laurent Huber will share updates and progress right here for our neighborhood to remain engaged and knowledgeable.
August 7, 2025 – At this time we witnessed one other day of intense negotiations. On the optimistic facet, greater than 120 international locations assist the idea of introducing a devoted well being article within the plastic treaty, one thing that will significantly assist align the plastic treaty to the tobacco treaty.
Additionally, quite a few international locations supported the event of standards and a non-exhaustive checklist of problematic single-use plastics that might be thought-about for elimination on the nationwide degree.
And it was additionally encouraging to see a really energetic civil society presence in these negotiations. On the much less optimistic facet, a not insignificant variety of international locations opposed the introduction of a well being article within the treaty and opposed the introduction of standards or a listing of plastics to part out, suggesting that international locations ought to decide individually what merchandise to part out.
ASH’s Key Factors for INC-5.2 can be found to evaluate in: English
