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How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - What really happened in Geneva?

How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - What really happened in Geneva?

Update: 2025-08-26
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After 11 days of talks between 180 nations in the middle of a heatwave, the final session dragged late into the night. The next morning we learned that the plastics treaty talks had - again - ended without an agreement to tackle plastic pollution. So after recovering from this intense week, Anja got in touch with Alexandra Harrington. Alexandra is an expert in law and she wears many hats: She’s the Chair of the Plastic Pollution Task Force at the World Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a Visiting Scholar at McGill University, and a member of the Plastic Treaty Legal Drafting Group. In this episode, they review what really happened in Geneva. And Alexandra has a hopeful message: Don't give up yet on the plastics treaty.

Theme: Dorian Roy
Music: Blue Dot Sessions sessions.blue
- Plasticity https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/336059
- The Pewter Elephant https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/335775
- Lush Arborio https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/335777
- Blue Latex https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/336061

Sound of protests from GAIA global alliance for incinerator alternatives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMncIHaNdmg

Plenary recordings from the UNEP webcast https://www.youtube.com/@UNEP/streams
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How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - What really happened in Geneva?

How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - What really happened in Geneva?

Anja Krieger