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📢🆕PUBLICATION: How flexible should be the #plasticstreaty to accommodate national capacities and be effective?🧶 #INC5
CIEL's new publication:
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Andrés del Castillo of @ciel_tweets stresses that the role of the @UN_HRC Advisory Committee's new report will be essential because it will outline how to meet substantive and procedural #HumanRights obligations in the #PlasticsTreaty.
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BREAKING: Habemus Chair for the #PlasticsTreaty : proof that voting works when consensus doesn’t.
Julio Cordano 🇨🇱is the new Chair
Round 2
🇨🇱 Chile — 92
🇸🇳 Senegal — 53
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The empty chair: INC5.3
Today around 170 countries gather for one day to chose the new captain of the #PlasticsTreaty process
📽️ Livestream: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1d/k1… 🍿
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live: Japan announced the interest in holding small country talks like the Geneva G17 Group of Friends!
Now live discussion on the #PlasticsTreaty at #UNEA7 which looks more like a INC5.2.2
WATCH : 🇰🇪🇯🇵🇷🇼🇬🇲🇩🇪
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@andresdelcas.bsky.social retweeted
🧂 Plastic pellets = toxic Trojan horses.
CIEL’s @andresdelcas revealed that 445,970 tonnes of nurdles spill yearly—yet they’re not classified as hazardous.
We demanded a #PlasticsTreaty rooted in #HumanRights: prevention, remedy, and #CorporateAccountability.
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@andresdelcas.bsky.social retweeted
For the first time, renewable energy has generated more power than coal.
The clean energy future is no longer a distant promise – it’s here.
We must seize this historic opportunity & supercharge the global shift towards a better future for all.
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BREAKING: #PlasticsTreaty chair @LuisVayasEc says he is quitting for personal and professional reasons after reports of pressure behind the scenes
READ:
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Recalling the 2021 Talanoa Declaration linking plastics & human rights, Andrés Del Castillo of @ciel_tweets urges stronger ocean governance, warns of fragmented #plasticpollution treaties, and calls for safeguards, consensus & an end to siloed thinking.
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Harsh reality of China petrochemical overcapacity drives Japanese merger
#PlasticsTreaty
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💥 Was UNEP behind the organisation of a riot to boo or the president of the #PlasticsTreaty Negotiations at INC5.2?
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#PlasticsTreaty and Corporate Capture:
WATCH: youtube.com/watch?v=a1N9k_Bs…
Reflecting on #PlasticsTreaty #INC5.2, Andres del Castillo of @ciel_tweets discusses how presence of lobbyists in environmental negotiations allows them to act as watchdogs to stop ambitious outcomes from emerging, instead of ensuring inclusive processes for vulnerable groups.
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EDC carriers: Pesticides & Plastics
#PlasticsTreaty
#Live now!
On the road to #UNGA80 & #UNEA7, experts on this event's panel will discuss how to advance global governance to tackle exposure to Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals & further global awareness and action on #EDCs.
▶️ tiny.cc/GEN1Sep25
📹 youtu.be/jylJumrij5I
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🇮🇳 Amazing 18 minutes video by The Hindu with Kunal Shankar and Jacob Koshy on the #PlasticsTreaty
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@andresdelcas.bsky.social retweeted
Countries are negotiating a global #PlasticsTreaty to help #BeatPlasticPollution.
We need a fair deal that tackles the full life-cycle of plastics, reflects the @CIJ_ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change & supports a shift away from fossil fuels.
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🪗From 371 Brackets of the Chair’s draft to to 1500 (1494) of the assembled text.
The accordeon #INC5.2
#PlasticsTreaty
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@andresdelcas.bsky.social retweeted
What set the stage for the #PlasticsTreaty?
In 2022, @UN Member States adopted #UNEA Resolution 5/14, launching negotiations for an international legally binding agreement on plastic pollution, addressing the life cycle of plastic, including its design, reuse and disposal.
bit.ly/44XWcFT #INC5
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.@DalaiLama urgent letter for #INC5.2
‘I hope everyone involved in the process will act wisely to produce a #plasticstreaty that protects the health of all living beings, safeguards human rights, and preserves our small blue planet, our only home.”
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🐘 NEW OECD report "Regional Plastics Outlook for Southeast and East Asia" #PlasticsTreaty
READ oecd.org/en/publications/reg…
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♻️ « Due to concerns with the feasibility and the environmental impacts of chemical recycling, the scenario analysis assumes that mechanical recycling technologies are the primary type of recycling technology adopted by countries »
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