Conflicto de intereses en el Tratado Mundial sobre los Plásticos

The document warns that the plastics and petrochemical industries are using tactics similar to those of the fossil fuel and tobacco industries to influence the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. It highlights a significant increase in industry lobbyists at the INC-5 session, who outnumber delegations from the European Union, Pacific Islands, and Latin American countries. The brief recommends incorporating conflict-of-interest protections directly into the treaty's preamble, scientific bodies, and articles concerning financial mechanisms and technology transfer to ensure the agreement's effectiveness in protecting public health and the environment.

• Industry presence at the most recent intergovernmental negotiating committee session (INC-5) saw over 220 lobbyists, representing a nearly 40% increase from the previous session. This number exceeds the delegations of the European Union, the Pacific Islands, and all Latin American countries combined.
• Industry influence tactics include creating doubt by funding favorable studies, spreading public misinformation, and securing privileged access to policymakers, as seen in previous multilateral environmental negotiations like the UNFCCC.
• Civil society, scientists, and officials from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights have called for strict conflict-of-interest policies to protect the treaty from petrochemical and plastic industry interests.
• Existing legal frameworks, such as the Aarhus Convention and the Escazú Agreement, already obligate member states to promote public participation and avoid undue economic or political influence in environmental decision-making.
• To ensure a robust treaty, the document recommends adding conflict-of-interest safeguards to the 'Chair's Text' in the preamble, within scientific bodies (using the Stockholm Convention as a model), and in articles 9 (existing plastic pollution), 11 (financial mechanism), and 12 (capacity building and technology transfer).

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} }