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The plastics treaty: steps forward, agreement deferred

Frontiers in Marine Science 2025 2 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Jianping Guo, Rui Hu, Rui Hu

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This perspective piece reviews the progress of the UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) toward an international legally binding plastics treaty from 2022 to mid-2025. It outlines the divergent positions of countries on production caps, chemical restrictions, and financing mechanisms, and assesses the likelihood of an effective global agreement.

The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) and the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) have been working on an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (Plastics Treaty) since 2022. This piece presents a perspective on the current progress of the Plastics Treaty from the first session of the UNEA to the last session of the INC as of August 2025, highlighting different positions of States and groups of States, based on which, argues that some of the key contentions remain throughout the negotiations.

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