Plastics Treaty INC-4: Interventions
Statement Presented by Pamela Miller, IPEN Co-chair April 26, 2024 Thank you, co-facilitators and good evening to all. My name is Pamela Miller, and I serve as Co-Chair of IPEN, a…
“Our Mother Earth is Sick”: Indigenous Leaders Speak Out
Every year, Delbert Pungowiyi’s community comes together to clean up the trash on the beach of his small island in Alaska. “Name a country, any country. Their country washes up…
At Plastics Treaty Talks, Indigenous and First Nations Leaders Call for Swift Global Action to Protect Health and the Environment from Toxic Plastics
Ottawa – Today, at an event in conjunction with the Plastics Treaty INC-4 negotiations, Indigenous Arctic and First Nations Peoples shared their experiences facing the interlinked threats from plastics, petrochemicals,…
On the Earth Day Agenda: A Global Plastics Treaty
To understand the global plastics treaty, it’s helpful to go back to the 2022 U.N. Environment Assembly meeting, where delegates agreed to write it. By then, plastics had long been…
After overshadowing climate talks, the myth of ‘circularity’ looms over the UN plastics treaty
by Judith Enck and Pamela Miller Judith Enck is a former EPA regional administrator, the president of Beyond Plastics, and sits on the faculty at Bennington College. Pamela Miller is executive director…
Global plastic pollution treaty talks hit critical stage in Canada
Thousands of negotiators and observers representing most of the world’s nations are gathering in the Canadian city of Ottawa this week to craft a treaty to stop the rapidly escalating…
As plastic treaty talks open, countries more divided than ever
Countries are under pressure to make progress on a first-ever global plastics treaty this week, but they face tense negotiations in the Canadian capital with parties deeply divided over what…
As Plastic Treaty Delegates Head to Canada, A Plea From the Arctic
Indigenous people from Arctic communities are calling for environmental protection in the runup to this month’s round of negotiations aimed at securing a global treaty to end plastic pollution. U.N.…
The U.N. Is Running Out of Time to Draft This Plastics Treaty
In March 2022, U.N. delegates met in Ottawa and struck a historic agreement to produce, by the end of 2024, a legally binding treaty to “end plastic pollution.” “Plastic pollution…
Ending toxic threats to Alaska from plastics and petrochemicals
Within a single lifetime, Indigenous communities in the Arctic have seen the rates of illness skyrocket due to toxic pollution caused by the interlinking of chemicals, plastics and the climate…
