Last updated : 06 Jul Chemicals and Pollution Plastics. This historic resolution mandates the UNEP Executive Director to convene an International Negotiating Committee INC to develop and adopt a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution based on a comprehensive approach that addresses the full life cycle of plastics.
This landmark decision thus launched the process towards a global plastics treaty, which should be developed by the end of Note by the Secretariat on dates and venues of subsequent sessions of the INC. The first two meetings for the development of the international legally binding agreement on plastic pollution took place in The meeting resulted in a proposed draft rules of procedure for the work of the INC.
Member States then met in Punta del Este, Uruguay, from 28 November to 2 December for the first meeting of the INC to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution. Ahead of INC-2, regional consultations were held on 28 May As requested at the end of the first session, at INC-2 the committee discussed the potential options for elements towards an international legally binding instrument released by the Secretariat on 13 April The Secretariat analyzed the written submissions from member states and other stakeholders, available on the INC secretariat website.
These included categories suggested in a guiding template objectives; core obligations, control measures and voluntary approaches; implementing elements; and additional input as well as introductory elements related to the preamble, definitions, scope, principles and institutional arrangements related to the governing body, subsidiary bodies, scientific and technical cooperation and coordination, and the secretariat.
The document offers 12 possible core obligations and various measures intended to support the intergovernmental negotiating committee in its deliberations for the future instrument, with measures that could be both legally binding and voluntary measures.
