August 8, 2025, Geneva, Switzerland – Four days into the final Global Plastics Treaty negotiations, we are not on track to deliver a treaty that will protect people and nature. Enough is enough; something must change. We are joining the voices of waste pickers, frontline communities, scientists, healthcare professionals, children and youth, women, businesses, and non-governmental organisations around the world, calling on governments to step up. Fix the process, keep your promise, and finalise a meaningful treaty to end plastic pollution.
Hellen Kahaso Dena, Greenpeace Africa’s Pan-Africa Plastics Project Lead said:
“We cannot let a few Member States derail and delay the negotiations like they have done in the last 5 INC meetings. Governments must seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and use every tool available to make progress and end corporate capture of these negotiations. African governments must demonstrate leadership as has been in previous negotiations and resist any attempts to come out of Geneva with a waste management treaty.”
Graham Forbes, Greenpeace Head of Delegation to the Global Plastics Treaty negotiation and Greenpeace USA Global Plastics Campaign Lead said:
“In Busan and in Nice, governments promised ambition, and ambition means cutting plastic production. An ineffective, weak treaty is a betrayal that further burdens the Global South, and emboldens the world’s biggest polluters. All countries that promised ambition must step up and deliver a treaty that cuts plastic production. They must be confident knowing the public is behind them, depending on their leadership and action now.
“Multilateralism must work for those who need it most. Consensus has failed due to the tyranny of the few. High ambition countries must be true to their word or be remembered as the ones who let the world choke on plastic. Governments promised ambition. Now they must deliver, not compromise.”
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