INC-5 Booklet
- Plastic -To assist negotiators, this booklet provides:
- On priorities for INC-5: An assessment of the third iteration of the Chair’s non-paper, followed by a proposed timeline to complete and complement negotiations until the treaty’s first Conference of Parties (COP);
- On production: A closer look at the challenges and opportunities around a treaty that includes a plastics phasedown, from its necessity from a climate angle to its impacts on jobs, to how an emphasis on upstream measures would render the treaty truly complementary, rather than redundant, with the Basel Convention;
- On finance: A proposal for a just and effective financial mechanism, followed by a closer look at a global plastics fee, and the opportunities and limitations of Extended Producer Responsibility, as well as the pitfalls of plastic credits;
- On just transition: Non-negotiables for waste pickers and other workers in cooperative settings as well as Indigenous peoples, as well as a look on the benefits of shifting to different materials within the single-use paradigm, or shifting to alternative systems;
- On waste management: A critique of plastics circularity, and an updated assessment of chemical recycling failures;
- As well as some key definitions.
