The next round of United Nations negotiations (INC-5.2) aiming to create a legally binding Global Plastics Treaty will take place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, from 5 to 14 August, ...

(See GAIA’s INC-5 Wrap Up, “What’s Next” section for details.) INC-5.2 is an extension of the plastics treaty talks. In the previous round of negotiations in Busan, South Korea (INC-5) in November of ...

The fifth U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) meeting intended to yield a legally binding global treaty in Busan was meant to be the final one, but countries remained far apart on ...

RELATED: | Additionally, the resumed session will be preceded by regional consultations Aug. 4. The first part of the fifth session, INC-5.1, took place Nov. 25-Dec. 1, 2024, in Busan, South Korea, ...

The United Nations is considering holding the next – and sixth – session of global plastics treaty negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, in July. The UN’s fifth negotiating session – called INC-5 – was ...

Busan'sselection to host INC-5 was made possible by its strong track record of ESG initiatives within the MICE industry. The Busan Tourism Organization (BTO)CVB's exhibition hall was decorated ...

Unless the process is fixed, INC-5.2 will also fail. The political dynamics, narratives, and numbers are conditioned in favor of a strong agreement now. However, we must not let this momentum drop.

The fifth, and what was supposed to be the final, round of negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty at the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) just concluded in Busan, ...

INC-5 Busan Plastic March protesting plastic production. Image courtesy of Seunghyeok Choi on assignment for Break Free From Plastic and Uproot Plastics Coalition. The road to INC-5.2 ...

This is more people than were in the delegations of South Korea or the EU. As INC-5 wore on, the like-minded group’s unmoving stance on production – and their resistance to restricting the use of ...

The story so far:The 5th Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) on plastic pollution was a conclave of delegations from about 170 countries mandated to establish a legally binding treaty ...