Posted on November, 27 2024

GLAND, Switzerland (27 November 2024) - Midway into the fifth and final negotiations on a global plastic pollution treaty, WWF is concerned by today’s stocktake showing a lack of progress by negotiators to trim treaty text and to include core measures that would make the eventual treaty capable of ending plastic pollution. 

“The mid-week stocktake plenary session brought to light the slow progress we have made so far this week, as well as the urgent need for a decisive shift in negotiations to move away from business as usual to achieve the ambition set in Nairobi in 2022. The impassioned interventions from a broad range of countries once again shone a spotlight on the need to ensure a handful of countries must not get in the way of that,” said Eirik Lindebjerg, Global Plastics Policy Lead, WWF.

“The relentless pursuit of consensus will only result in one outcome: a weak voluntary treaty focused on waste management that would hand down a death sentence to life on this planet and future generations. We came here to Busan to get a legally binding treaty with global rules across the entire lifecycle. Member states must now ensure they utilise all procedural options to achieve that outcome, including voting if necessary.

"We are calling out the spoilers on their bluff. All they want is a watered-down treaty. Don’t let them dictate to you what you must do - if this means leaving some uncollaborative countries behind, so be it.”

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