First Session of Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution

WORKING DOCUMENTS

UNEP/PP/INC.1/14

Report of the intergovernmental negotiating committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, on the work of its first session

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Note:  *English version is reissued for technical reasons and available as an advance version.

UNEP/PP/INC.1/1 

Provisional Agenda

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UNEP/PP/INC.1/1/Add.1

Annotated provisional agenda 

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UNEP/PP/INC.1/2

Scenario note for the first session of the intergovernmental negotiating committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment

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UNEP/PP/INC.1/3

Draft rules of procedure for the work of the intergovernmental negotiating committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment

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UNEP/PP/INC.1/4 

Broad options for the structure of the international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, taking into account paragraphs 3 and 4 of United Nations Environment Assembly resolution 5/14 

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UNEP/PP/INC.1/5 

Potential elements, based on provisions in paragraphs 3 and 4 of United Nations Environment Assembly resolution 5/14, including key concepts, procedures and mechanisms of legally binding multilateral agreements that may be relevant to furthering implementation and compliance under the future international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment

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UNEP/PP/INC.1/6 

Glossary of key terms 

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UNEP/PP/INC.1/7 

Plastics science

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UNEP/PP/INC.1/8 

Description of standard articles on final provisions that are typically included in multilateral environmental agreements

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UNEP/PP/INC.1/9 

Overview of existing funding currently available for addressing plastic pollution through international funding arrangements, including from other processes, programmes, multilateral funds, development banks and private sector initiatives

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UNEP/PP/INC.1/10 

Overview of information to promote cooperation and coordination with relevant regional and international conventions, instruments and organizations

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UNEP/PP/INC.1/11 

Priorities, needs, challenges and barriers relating to ending plastic pollution at the national level

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UNEP/PP/INC.1/12 

Overview of stakeholder engagement frameworks under other instruments and of potential approaches for the international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment

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UNEP/PP/INC.1/13 

Existing information that might assist policymakers

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INFORMATION DOCUMENTS

UNEP/PP/INC.1/INF/1 

UNEA resolution 5/14 - End plastic pollution: Towards an international legally binding instrument 

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UNEP/PP/INC.1/INF/2 

Report of the ad hoc open-ended working group to prepare for the work of the intergovernmental negotiating committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment

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UNEP/PP/INC.1/INF/3/REV.2

Proposed timetable for the intergovernmental negotiating committee process

UNEP/PP/INC.1/INF/4 

Addendum to the existing information that might assist policy makers (UNEP/PP/INC.1/13)

UNEP/PP/INC.1/INF/5 

Information from the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, as requested by the Conference of the Parties and other information that could be of relevance to the consideration by the intergovernmental negotiating committee 

UNEP/PP/INC.1/INF/6 (POSTPONED) 

Invitation for comments on a draft report “Global governance of plastics and associated chemicals”

UNEP/PP/INC.1/INF/7 (POSTPONED)

Technical Report on Chemicals in Plastics by UNEP and the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm secretariat 

UNEP/PP/INC.1/INF/8 

Addendum document on priorities, needs, challenges and barriers to end plastic pollution at national level (UNEP/PP/INC.1/11)

UNEP/PP/INC.1/INF/9 

Budget overview for the period 2022 – 2025

UNEP/PP/INC.1/INF/10 

Addendum to the overview of existing funding currently available for addressing plastic pollution through international funding arrangements, including from other processes, programmes, multilateral funds, development banks and private sector initiatives

UNEP/PP/INC.1/INF/11

Approach for the multi-stakeholder action agenda to end plastic pollution (Submitted by UNEP)

UNEP/PP/INC.1/INF/12

List of participants

In-session documents

UNEP/PP/INC.1/L.2

Draft decision on the draft provisional agenda of the second session of the intergovernmental negotiating committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment

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In-session submissions

Proposal from the USA and the EU for a consolidated language of paragraph 2 of Rule 37, reflecting consultations with interested parties having expressed concern on this matter at the OEWG (27 November 2022)

Proposal from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and Qatar for paragraph 2 of Rule 37 of the draft Rules of Procedure  (28 November 2022)

 

Informal group

Proposal from the co-facilitators of the informal group for the draft text of the session report in relation to the documentation to inform INC2

Final proposal from the co-facilitators of the informal group for the draft text of the session report in relation to the documentation to inform INC2

Outcome of the informal group discussions in relation to the documentation to inform INC-2

Modalities for the inclusive multi-stakeholder engagement

 

Synthesis report of the stakeholder dialogue

Stakeholder dialogue at the first session of the intergovernmental negotiating committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment

Statements at the first session of the intergovernmental negotiating committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment.

Please send statements to unep-incplastic.statements@un.org. The statements received will be posted on this tab.

 

STATEMENTS ON BEHALF OF A GROUP OF STATES

Africa Group

Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)

Asia-Pacific States

European Union 

Georgia on behalf of the High Ambition Coalition

Latin America and Caribbean Group

Pacific Small Island Developing States

United States, on behalf of the United States, Australia, Canada, Iceland, Japan, Monaco, New Zealand, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom

Western European and Other States

 

MEMBERS

African Group

Algeria

Angola

Burkina Faso

Cameroon

Côte d'Ivoire

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Egypt

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Ghana

Kenya

Libya

Malawi

Mali

Morocco

Nigeria

Republic of Congo

Rwanda

Seychelles

South Africa

Tunisia

Uganda

United Republic of Tanzania

Zambia

 

Asia and the Pacific Group

Bahrain

China

Cook's Island

India

Indonesia

Japan

Jordan

Kiribati

Malaysia

Marshall Islands

Micronesia

Mongolia

Nepal

Pakistan

Palau

Papua New Guinea

Phillipines

Qatar

Republic of Korea

Saudi Arabia

Singapore

Sri Lanka

Syrian Arab Republic 

Thailand

Türkiye

United Arab Emirates

Viet Nam

 

Eastern European Group

Armenia

Georgia

Montenegro

Russian Federation

Ukraine

 

Latin American and Caribbean Group

Argentina

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Cuba

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

El Salvador

Mexico

Panama

Peru

Trinidad and Tobago

Uruguay

Venezuela

 

Western European and Others Group 

Australia

Canada

France

Iceland

Italy

Monaco

New Zealand

Norway

Switzerland

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

United States of America

 

OBSERVERS

1. INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS

International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)

International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR)

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

 

2. UNITED NATIONS SPECIALISED AGENCIES AND RELATED ORGANISATIONS

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

United Nations Global Compact

World Health Organisation

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

3. MULTILATERAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS

Secretariats of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions

 

4. OBSERVERS FROM NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS 

Action et Education Pour Tous (AEPT) and Bridgers Association Cameroon

Azul

AWTAD Anti-Corruption Organization

Barranquilla+20

Business and Industry Major Group Presented by World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Community Action Against Plastic Waste (CAPws)

Center for Oceanic Awareness, Research, and Education (COARE) On behalf of: COARE, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Action on Smoking and Health, Corporate Accountability International, and Break Free From Plastic

Co-habiter

Earth day

Ecoproject Partnership

Endocrine Society

Environmental and Social Development Organization (ESDO)

Fenceline Watch

Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)

Health Care Without Harm

Indigenous Peoples and Their Communities Major Group Presented by Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe

Integrated Strategies Forum

International Medical Crisis Response Alliance (IMCRA)

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN)

International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC)

Major Alliance Education Centre(MAEC)

Major Group for Children and Youth

NGO Major Group Presented by The Center for Oceanic Awareness, Research, and Education (COARE)

Nipe Fagio

Partnerships For Change

Samo Foundation

Science and Technology Major Group Presented by International Science Council 

The Ocean Cleanup

Trash Hero World

Unions workers and wastepickers

Unplastify

Vital Strategies

Women's Major Group

World Wide Fund for Nature

 

Other 

Executive Secretary of the INC

Following the OEWG, Member States, members of Specialized Agencies and relevant stakeholders were invited to make submissions on: (i) the sequencing and organization of INC; (ii) substantive issues which would contribute to preparation of documentation for INC-1, in particular, regarding potential elements of the future instrument as well as priorities, needs, challenges and barriers and overview of national measures; and (iii) the content and considerations for the preparation of the forum as set out in the OEWG information document entitled ‘Preparations for the forum’ (UNEP/PP/OEWG/1/INF/4).

Submissions were to be sent to unep-incplastic.secretariat@un.org no later than 15 July 2022. The submissions received were posted on this tab.

MEMBERS

Australia

• Australia: Submission to the INC Process

Brazil

• End plastic pollution: towards an international legally binding instrument: Comments from Brazil prior to INC-1

Chile

• Follow up of the Open-Ended Working Group for the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to Develop an International Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution

Costa Rica

• Written Submission from Costa Rica to the INC process

Ecuador

• Written submission from Ecuador: Recommendations for the organization of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee

European Union and its Member States

• Written submission from the European Union and its 27 Member states on recommendations for the organization of work of the INC

Germany

• Overview of existing national measures (DEU)
• Overview of relevant conventions, instruments and organizations
• Plastic science
• Glossary of key terms i
• Glossary of key terms ii

Indonesia

• Proposal of technical substances for INC-1 to end plastic pollution

Japan

• Japan's submission to the INC process of an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment

Morocco - 12 August 2022

• Follow up of the Open-Ended Working Group for the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to Develop an International Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution

Norway

• Written submission from the Government of Norway on the organization of work of the INC

Peru

• Contributions of Peru to the process of the Intergovernmental Negotiations Committee (INC)
  • English
  • Spanish

Qatar - 25 October 2022

• State of Qatar written submission of recommendations for the organization and sequencing of the work of the INC

Republic of Korea

• Written submission by the Republic of Korea on the work of the intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC) to develop an international instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment

Rwanda

• Sequencing of Work of the INC: Written Submission by Rwanda

Saudi Arabia - 11 August 2022

• Saudi Arabia’s written submission on recommendations for the organization and sequencing of the work of the INC

Singapore

• Preparations for the first intergovernmental negotiating committee on plastic pollution (INC-1)

Sri Lanka

• High Commission and Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office in Nairobi (UNEP and UNHABITAT) of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

Switzerland

• Follow-up to the OEWG plastic pollution: Written submission from Switzerland

Thailand

• Written submission on recommendations for the organization of work of INC

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland

• Written submission from the United Kingdom on recommendations for the INC’s organisation of work

United States of America

• Submission by the United States of America

 

OBSERVERS

1. OBSERVERS FROM NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS

Center For International Environmental Law

• SOWING A PLASTIC PLANET: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future
• Toward a New Instrument Addressing the Full Life Cycle of Plastics
• Towards a Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution

Earth Law Center

• Comments on potential elements and principles of the future instrument

Environmental Investigation Agency

• Convention on Plastic Pollution
  • Essential Elements: Financial Aspects
  • Essential Elements: Reporting and Monitoring
  • Essential Elements: Virgin Plastic Production and Consumption

Environmental Investigation Agency and Center For International Environmental Law

• Convention on Plastic Pollution: Toward a new global agreement to address plastic pollution
  • Arabic
  • Chinese
  • English
  • French
  • Russian
  • Spanish

• Sequencing of Work of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee

EURECA

• Visión de EURECA
• Entidades Unidas Reafirmando la Economía Circular en Argentina

Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)

• Submission to the INC process on plastic pollution

Global Alliance of Waste-pickers

• Submission from the Global Alliance of Waste-pickers for the 1st INC session in Uruguay

International Council of Chemical Associations

• ICCA Recommendations for the Organization of Work of the INC

International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

• Submission from Workers and Trade Unions Major Groups on the first intergovernmental negotiating committee on plastic pollution (INC-1)

International Pollutants Elimination Network

• IPEN submission on the work of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on plastic pollution

Our Sea of East Asia Network

• Written Submission from Our Sea of East Asia Network on Substantive Issues and Content for the Forum

Pew Charitable Trusts

• Written Statement on the Organization of Work for the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to end plastic pollution

Recycling Partnership

• Plastic Pollution OEWG: Written Submission and Recommendations on the Organizational and Substantive work of the INC

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

• Written submission from WBCSD to the INC process

World Wide Fund for Nature

• Written submission from WWF on recommendations for the organisation of work of the INC to develop an international legally binding instrument

 

2. MULTILATERAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS

Secretariats of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions

• Submission by the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions in preparation for the first session of the intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment

 

3. UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - 9 August 2022

• Submission of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) 

International Labour Organization

• First session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop an International Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution, including in the Marine Environment, Uruguay, 28 November-2 December 2022

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

• UNIDO’s Activities and Initiatives for addressing plastic pollution

 

UNSOLICITED SUBMISSIONS

MEMBERS

High ambition coalition led by Norway and Rwanda - 24 November 2022

• High ambition coalition to end plastic pollution: HAC Member States Joint Statement INC-1

 

OBSERVERS

Center For International Environmental Law, Environmental Investigation Agency, and Greenpeace - 18 November 2022

• Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) Submissions: Quick View of Submissions on Clustering and Sequencing of Work

Citeo - 26 November 2022

• Integrate Extended Producer Responsibility within the International plastics Treaty Common position Paper

Environmental Investigation Agency

• Convention on Plastic Pollution
  • Essential Elements: Fishing Gear - 8 November 2022
  • Essential Elements: Reuse - 15 November 2022
• Global Plastics Treaty: Initial Considerations for INC-1 - 8 November 2022

Health and Environment Justice Support (HEJSupport), Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC) and groundWork South Africa (groundWorkSA) - 21 October 2022

• Global Plastics Treaty – transparency requirement for chemical constituents in plastic is a must

International Solid Waste Association (ISWA)

• Key messages from ISWA at INC-1

Minderoo Foundation - 16 November 2022

• Submission to the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution, including in the marine environment