{"id":68495,"date":"2025-08-15T16:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/?p=68495"},"modified":"2025-08-15T16:19:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:19:35","slug":"people-pay-the-price-as-plastics-treaty-talks-end-in-deadlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/press\/68495\/people-pay-the-price-as-plastics-treaty-talks-end-in-deadlock\/","title":{"rendered":"People pay the price as Plastics Treaty talks end in deadlock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hundreds of citizens and civil society organizations from across the world gather at Place des Nations in Geneva to demand an ambitious and legally binding plastics treaty that puts people and the planet before polluters.
\u00a9 Samuel Schalch \/ Greenpeace<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

15 August 2025, Geneva, Switzerland\/Quezon City, Philippines<\/em> \u2014 After two years of negotiations, governments in Geneva once again failed to agree on a Global Plastics Treaty strong enough to end the plastic crisis\u2014choosing delay and division over decisive action to protect people and the planet.<\/p>\n\n

Greenpeace Philippines\u2019 Zero Waste Campaigner Marian Ledesma, who is in Geneva attending the talks, said:<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThis is not progress; it\u2019s paralysis. Governments left Geneva empty-handed again, while unchecked plastic production\u2014the real driver of this crisis\u2014keeps accelerating. What the world needs is a reset, not another replay of failure. Every day of delay lets the fossil fuel and plastic industry escape accountability, while communities like ours are left to pick up the pieces and pay the price.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\u201cLet\u2019s call it what it is: the heavy hand of fossil fuel and plastics lobbyists is setting these negotiations up for failure. Their presence at the table is not about solutions but sabotage, undermining the calls of most governments\u2014including the Philippines\u2014for a strong, legally binding treaty that cuts plastic production, protects human health, provides just and equitable financing, and addresses the full lifecycle of plastics from extraction to disposal. A few bad actors must not be allowed to dictate the future of the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\u201cToo much is at stake. The Philippines cannot afford to sit still while waiting for the treaty to be finalized when Filipinos have been unjustly enduring the health, social, and environmental costs of plastic pollution for decades. National action can\u2014and must\u2014begin now. By holding plastic-polluting corporations accountable, passing laws consistent with our strong positions in the negotiations, phasing out single-use plastics, and scaling up reuse and refill systems, we can confront the full lifecycle of plastic and protect Filipinos from its impacts. Anything less is surrendering our future to plastic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

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