Ocean plastic

The 4th Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to Develop an International Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution held in Ottawa, Canada, in April closed with some progress on the draft text but much bracketed text still to be discussed at the final session which will be held in Busan, Republic of Korea in November. At the close of the session, 29 nations launched the Bridge to Busan: Declaration on Primary Plastic Polymers, reaffirming that the treaty must address production. Nominated national and technical experts will gather in Bangkok, Thailand, for the in-person meeting of the two Ad Hoc Intersessional Open-ended Expert Groups established at the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, in the run-up to the fifth session. The Co-Chairs have prepared two important documents for this in-person meeting taking place from 24 to 28 August: the Co-Chairs’ Synthesis Paper on Finance for group 1 and the Co-Chairs’ Synthesis Document for group 2. The outcomes will be presented in the form of Co-chairs’ reports for consideration by the Committee at INC-5.

Find out more about the latest developments here, read the ENB meeting summar here and about ocean plastic pollution here.

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