5 - 14 August 2025, Geneva, Switzerland
The second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2), is scheduled to take place from 5 to 14 August 2025 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
The resumed session will be preceded by regional consultations on 4 August 2025.
The first part of the fifth session (INC-5.1) took place from 25 November to 1 December 2024 in Busan, Republic of Korea.
- The Chair’s Text released on 1 December 2024.
- The draft report of the INC on the work of the first part of its fifth session.
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Letter from the Aotearoa Plastic Pollution Alliance (APPA) (20 February 2025)
Letter from GAIA (19 February 2025)
Letter from ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (19 February 2025)
Letter from the International Alliance of Waste Pickers (19 February 2025)
Letter from the Women's Major Group to UNEP (17 February 2025)
Letter from the Abya Yala network for the reduction of plastic production with binding global goals (13 February 2025)
Letter from the Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty (11 February 2025)
Letter from International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) (17 January 2025)
> Response from the INC Chair to the letter from International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) (24 January 2025)
Letter from members of the Congress of the United States and the European Parliament (15 November 2024)
Letter from NGOs across the world (September 2024)
Contacts
INC Secretariat: unep-incplastic.secretariat@un.org
Registration enquiries: unep-incplastic.registration@un.org
Media enquiries: unep-incplastic.media@un.org
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