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Despite Wide Agreement on the Need to Address the Plastics Crisis, Oil States Derail Efforts for a Global Plastics Treaty
Geneva – The Plastics Treaty INC-5.2 negotiations closed today without an agreement, despite the majority of nations calling for meaningful, global solutions to protect health and the environment. While the INC has called for negotiations to continue at a date…
Ambitious Countries Stand Strong, Refuse Weak Plastics Treaty
Way Forward for Treaty Negotiations Left Unclear, Civil Society Stands with Countries Choosing People Over Politics Geneva, Switzerland– At the close of the plastics treaty negotiations (INC-5.2), ambitious Member States held strong under immense pressure and a broken process, and…
The Cost of Reality in the Psyche of a Conscious Journalist
It is not fatigue: it is erosion. Reality, when it touches you daily with the coldness of a war report and the smell of a morgue, wears you down from the inside until it makes invisible the edges that once…
Global Warming in Vogue, Deal With It!
Global Warming (“GW”) is winning, and it is gaining. Obstacles to hotter temperatures are falling to the wayside, allowing GW to go for more intense heatwaves along with much, much higher sea levels. Alas, the greenest of green countries are…
EcoWaste Coalition Calls for Strengthened Action to Stop Production and Trade of Mercury Cosmetics
Watchdog Group Lists 48 Skin Lightening Products Adulterated With Mercury 15 August 2025, Quezon City. As the eighth anniversary of the global entry into force of the Minamata Convention on Mercury is observed on August 16, the toxics watchdog group…
Global South Governments and CSOs Demand to Secure a Strong Plastic Treaty at INC-5.2
Geneva, Switzerland– Demonstrating strong unity, Global South Member States and Civil Society called for ambitious, legally binding global measures to curb plastic production, in a media briefing on the closing day of the second part of the fifth session of…
Communities Demand ADB to Phase out Dirty Energy
Communities and advocates rally against policies that would lock Asia into polluting energy projects and deepen climate inequities Mandaluyong City, Philippines – 14 August 2025 – Today, environmental advocates and community members gathered outside the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters…
Southeast Asian Governments are Called to Put the Environment and Health First at the Plastics Treaty Negotiation
Negotiators are Trading Away our Health and our Future Generations in Favour of an Easy Path to a Weak Treaty 11 August 2025, Geneva, Switzerland – The negotiation towards a global plastics treaty to end plastic pollution reaches a point…
Plastics Treaty Negotiations: Protecting Health Must Take Center Stage
Geneva, Switzerland – Midway through the Plastics Treaty negotiations scheduled to end this Thursday August 14, IPEN notes that concerns for the threats to human health from toxic plastic chemicals are widely shared by delegates as momentum grows for a…
EcoWaste Coalition Urges Government to Craft Product Safety Standards for Stainless Steel Water Tumblers
Group Presses for Regulatory Action to Prevent Dumping of Non-compliant Products 11 August 2025, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition urged government regulators to craft product safety standards for reusable stainless steel water tumblers after finding violative levels…
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