With no text adopted as the basis of negotiations at the end of INC-5.2, and with no clear plans for how the treaty can be delivered, WWF calls on ambitious states to pursue a different process as the consensus-at-all-costs mindsets within the INC process show no signs of improving.

With numerous ministers and diplomats in attendance, the INC-5.2 Chair finally released a new draft of the global plastic pollution treaty. However, the text failed to live up to expectations that it would lead negotiations to a strong and ambitious treaty. 

Civil society organisations at INC-5.2 have come together to demand greater action as talks at an ongoing global plastic pollution summit, known as INC-5.2, teeter on the verge of failure.

At the third UN Ocean Conference, co-host France, issued a “wake up call” to rally countries in support of a legally binding global plastic pollution treaty intended to put an end to one of modern civilisation’s most enduring crises. Photo: Ivan Guilbert / Terra

WWF, Greenpeace and Break Free from Plastic delivered almost 3 million signatures from over 180 countries demanding that governments make good on their promise to establish a legally binding global treaty that can put an end to plastic pollution.