Insights on business engagement with the resumed INC-5.2 treaty negotiations (2025) Published: 6 December 2025 Analysis This analysis looks at corporate lobbying efforts around the plastics treaty. It discusses who those actors are and what their messaging on the treaty has been, while revealing how narratives pushed by chemical and petrochemical advocates contributed to the collapse of the talks. This is a useful resource for pointing out corporate capture.
Environmental Investigation Agency Published: 6 December 2025 Briefing In this briefing, EIA experts outline the essential conditions for a successful resolution of the negotiations for a global plastics treaty and recommendations for urgent course correction.
Potential ways forward for the Global Plastics Treaty Published: 6 December 2025 Briefing This briefing sets out urgent strategies to break the deadlock in negotiations for a global plastics treaty after INC‑5.2 in Geneva in 2025 ended in stalemate.
UNEA Briefing: Defending the Integrity of the Plastics Treaty Negotiations (2025) Published: 6 December 2025 Briefing The Plastics Treaty INC is aMember State-led, independent negotiation process convened under UNEA 5/14. It isnota subsidiary organ of UNEA and, therefore, cannot be altered, suspended, or dissolved by UNEA or UNEP. The INC process remains active because INC-5 was not closed but was adjourned and will reconvene for INC5.3, preserving its legal continuity under UN procedural law.
Initiative: Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations (2025) Published: 1 September 2025 Website This initiative supports the achievement of an ambitious, effective, and fair treaty that strengthens the international cooperation needed to end plastic pollution.
How to get an international treaty to end global plastic pollution? (2025) Published: 1 September 2025 Video This short animated video shows the obstacles preventing a meaningful plastics treaty and how to overcome them.
PLASTICS, PROFITS & POWER: How petrochemical companies are derailing (2025)the Global Plastics Treaty Published: 1 September 2025 Report This report exposes how some of the world’s largest petrochemicalcompanies are expanding production while flooding the treaty negotiationswith hundreds of lobbyists in an effort to weaken ambition and shiftattention onto false solutions like chemical recycling.
Conflict of Interest in the Global Plastics Treaty (2025) Published: 9 July 2025 Report The report examines how industries influence negotiations and the kinds of interference in the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations to date. It also offers specific recommendations to safeguard the negotiations, the future Conference of the Parties, and the implementation of the future treaty.