The ASH Group 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’ll share updates and progress right here for our neighborhood to remain engaged and knowledgeable all through COP11.
November 17, 2025 – Greetings from Geneva and the 11th Convention of the Events (COP) of the WHO Framework Conference on Tobacco Management. The COP formally started as we speak, however after all a variety of the work is completed earlier than the primary gavel falls.
The day started with a civil society occasion on the well-known Damaged Chair sculpture outdoors the Palace of Nations, focusing consideration on the life and demise penalties of the outcomes of COP11.
The day 1 agenda is basically procedural, together with the adoption of the provisional agenda. This time, nonetheless, it was really an essential second. There’s one agenda merchandise that threatens to eat up a number of days of the COP, one thing the tobacco trade prizes. That merchandise is the position of non-traditional nicotine merchandise in tobacco coverage, i.e., hurt discount. The provisional agenda had it final amongst substantive points; shifting it to first threatened leaving no time for productive conversations. Happily, the agenda was adopted with out remark.
A lot of the remainder of the day was absorbed by “normal debate,” which on this case means Events taking the ground to tout their progress in FCTC implementation for the reason that final COP. A number of Events pointed positively (and some negatively) to the approaching dialogue of Ahead-Trying Measures (FLMs). FLMs are first on the substantive agenda as soon as provisional points are completed. That is the primary FCTC COP for the reason that launch of the wonderful skilled group report. The report consists of a number of true endgame measures, one thing by no means earlier than debated at COP. Day 2 could possibly be historic.
