Conflicto de intereses en el Tratado Mundial sobre los Plásticos

This policy brief by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) warns that the plastics and petrochemical industries are using lobbying and misinformation to weaken the Global Plastics Treaty. It highlights that industry lobbyists outnumbered many national delegations at the INC-5 session and urges the inclusion of explicit conflict-of-interest safeguards in the treaty text to protect public health and environmental goals.

• Industry influence in the negotiations is evidenced by the high number of lobbyists; at the INC-5 session, over 220 plastic industry lobbyists registered, representing a nearly 40% increase from the previous negotiation.
• The number of industry lobbyists at INC-5 exceeded the number of delegates from the European Union, the Pacific Islands, and all Latin American countries, and outnumbered the Coalition of Scientists for an Effective Plastics Treaty by more than two to one and the Indigenous Peoples Forum by nearly nine to one.
• The document identifies common industry tactics used to obstruct environmental policy, including financing studies to create doubt, spreading misinformation, and securing privileged access to policymakers.
• CIEL recommends that the final treaty text include specific safeguards: a recognition of conflicts of interest in the preamble, the establishment of conflict-free scientific bodies (citing the Stockholm Convention's POPs Review Committee as a model), and safeguards whenever the private sector is mentioned, specifically in articles regarding existing plastic pollution, financial mechanisms, and capacity building.
• Existing legal frameworks, such as the Aarhus Convention and the Escazú Agreement, already obligate member states to promote public participation, which the document argues requires protecting negotiations from undue economic or political influence.

APA

Radvany, R. (2025). Conflicto de intereses en el Tratado Mundial sobre los Plásticos. Center for International Environmental Law. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Conflicto-de-intereses-en-el-Tratado-Mundial-sobre-los-Plasticos.pdf

Chicago

Radvany, Rachel. Conflicto de intereses en el Tratado Mundial sobre los Plásticos. Center for International Environmental Law, 2025. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Conflicto-de-intereses-en-el-Tratado-Mundial-sobre-los-Plasticos.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{radvany2025conflicto, author = {Radvany, Rachel}, title = {{Conflicto de intereses en el Tratado Mundial sobre los Plásticos}}, institution = {Center for International Environmental Law}, year = {2025}, month = may, url = {https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Conflicto-de-intereses-en-el-Tratado-Mundial-sobre-los-Plasticos.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }