Policy

This booklet serves as a comprehensive guide to the plastics treaty negotiations (INC-4) in Ottawa, complete with primers on:

  • What the INC-4 could achieve
  • The rules of procedure
  • Priorities for zero draft discussion in contact groups
  • A global plastics tax
  • Extended Producer Responsibility
  • plastics offsetting, credits, and neutrality: false claims and polluting practices
  • Just Transition
  • Switching materials or systems?
  • The plastics circularity trap
  • The plastics treaty and the Basel Convention
  • “Is there anything there?” Nuclear-assisted chemical recycling
  • Definitions

This booklet serves as a comprehensive guide, complete with primers on:

  • what the plastics treaty INC-3 could achieve
  • the rules of procedure
  • scope and principles
  • priorities for zero draft discussion in contact groups
  • the plastics circularity trap
  • the plastics treaty and the Basel Convention
  • Definitions

L’avant-projet de traité sur les plastiques est un document équilibré qui inclut l’ensemble des points
de vue exprimés par les gouvernements lors des INC-1 et 2; il fournit donc une excellente base des
négociations de l’INC-3. L’éventail des points de vue comprend des options à la fois faibles et fortes pour
chacune des mesures de contrôle et chacun des moyens de mise en œuvre, depuis la réduction de la
production de plastiques jusqu’au mécanisme de financement.

El borrador cero del tratado de plásticos es un documento equilibrado que incluye una serie de
opiniones expresadas por los gobiernos durante los INC 1 y 2 y debería constituir la base para las
negociaciones del INC-3. Incluye opciones tanto fuertes como débiles para todas las medidas de control
y los medios de implementación, desde la reducción de la producción de plástico hasta un mecanismo de
financiación.

The plastics treaty zero draft is a balanced document that includes the full range of views expressed by governments during INCs 1 and 2 and should be the basis for negotiations at INC-3. This full range includes both strong and weak options for all control measures and means of implementation, from reducing plastic production to a financing mechanism.

This submission provides detailed GAIA recommendations to orient intersessional work and global plastics treaty negotiations. It includes criteria and processes to set plastic production freeze and phasedown targets and schedules and their supporting measures, and a framework to identify high-risk plastic products and materials for priority action, as well as polymers and other chemicals of concern, among other issues.

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