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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 5d

Peace is more than an absence of war!

Welcoming today’s ceasefire in #Gaza, Greenpeace calls for humanitarian organisations to be given unrestricted access to deliver aid in the face of famine and genocide.

Full statement:

www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Alt text:
Destroyed residential buildings in the Jabalia area, northern Gaza Strip, photographed after Israeli forces withdrew in January 2009. Rubble and debris stretch across the landscape where homes once stood, with people seen moving among the ruins.

Photo credit:
Photo by RafahKid / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Date and location:
Jabalia, Gaza Strip — 20 January 2009

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joelleherin.bsky.social @joelleherin.bsky.social · 5d

The ordinances need to enable reusable packaging systems and create a level playing field between recycling and reuse. Right now, not in 10 years. A target of 40% reuse by 2040 should be set for drinks packaging as well as an intermediate target for large companies.

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joelleherin.bsky.social @joelleherin.bsky.social · 5d

We need to enable #reusesystems and create a level playing field between recycling and #reuse. Right now, not in 10 years. A #target of 40% reuse by 2040 should be set for drinks packaging as well as an intermediate target for large companies. @bafu.admin.ch

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joelleherin.bsky.social @joelleherin.bsky.social · 5d

Plastic recycling targets would not put a single dent on the amount of waste produced, nor protect human health from the #hazardous substances found in plastic. On the contrary, it will lock the consumption system deeper into more single use packaging, more pollution and more waste.

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joelleherin.bsky.social @joelleherin.bsky.social · 5d

With the Umwelt-Allianz - Alliance Environnement, we have raised a number of points that need to be integrated in the OLED/VVEA and OEm/VerP ordinances @de.greenpeace.ch @fr.greenpeace.ch

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joelleherin.bsky.social @joelleherin.bsky.social · 5d

Let’s be honest. If we want to #reduce packaging waste, #stopplasticpollution and protect #humanhealth in Switzerland, it is going to take much more than the current Waste Limitation and Packaging Ordinances currently on the table. Read our position here: umweltallianz.ch/fr/procedure...

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Greenpeace Schweiz @de.greenpeace.ch · Aug 15

Das #PlasticsTreaty bleibt ohne Einigung.

Das muss ein Weckruf sein für die Welt.
Der Kommentar von @joelleherin.bsky.social 👇

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Plastikabkommen: «Die Unfähigkeit, in Genf eine Einigung zu erzielen, muss ein Weckruf für die Welt sein» - Greenpeace Schweiz

Nach zwei Jahren Verhandlungen über ein globales Plastikabkommen standen die Minister in Genf in den letzten Stunden der vermeintlich letzten Verhandlungsrunde vor einer historischen Entscheidung: Ein...

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · Aug 15

Dear world,

After almost 3 years, the “final” round of Global #PlasticsTreaty negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland just wrapped and a weak treaty was stopped (again).

This is what you missed 👇

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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · Aug 15

The #PlasticsTreaty talks have ended without a treaty. To call this process a failure is an understatement. The world doesn't need more plastic. People know it, doctors know it, markets know it. We must now restart — not repeat.
👉 Read our statement: bit.ly/4fIWhCC

Geneva Plastics Treaty Talks End in Abject Failure - Center for International Environmental Law

Plastics treaty talks collapse at the end of the resumed fifth session of the negotiations (INC-5.2).

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joelleherin.bsky.social @joelleherin.bsky.social · Aug 15

Les dirigeant·es du monde entier doivent écouter. L'avenir de notre santé et de notre planète en dépend. @uvek.bsky.social

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joelleherin.bsky.social @joelleherin.bsky.social · Aug 15

L'appel de la société civile est clair: il faut un traité fort et juridiquement contraignant qui réduise la production de plastique, protège la santé humaine, propose un financement solide et équitable et mette fin à la pollution plastique, de son extraction à l'élimination.

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joelleherin.bsky.social @joelleherin.bsky.social · Aug 15

La grande majorité des gouvernements veulent un accord fort, mais une poignée d'acteurs mal intentionnés ont été autorisés à utiliser le processus pour réduire à néant cette ambition. Nous ne pouvons pas continuer à faire la même chose et espérer un résultat différent. #INC52 #BreakFreeFromPlastic

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joelleherin.bsky.social @joelleherin.bsky.social · Aug 15

L'incapacité à parvenir à un accord à Genève est un signal d'alarme pour le monde entier. Ce n'est pas le moment de battre en retraite mais d'être persévérants. Il faut un accord contre la pollution plastique, qui protège notre santé, les populations et la planète. #INC52 @fr.greenpeace.ch

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joelleherin.bsky.social @joelleherin.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚨 #PlasticsTreaty LIVE streaming of the plenary ongoing now!

Break Free From Plastic @breakfreefromplastic.org · Aug 15

Starting in 5 mins: FINAL PLENARY at the #INC52!

Tune in to follow the #PlasticTreaty negotiations, as they spill over to the early hours of day 10. We hope to see a new dawn for the 3+ years of negotiations with strong, legally binding text:

📽️: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1z...

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INC-5.2 on plastic pollution (part 5 )

Plenary continues at the second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2)

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · Aug 14

The only way to reduce microplastic exposure is to cut plastic production.

Tell world leaders to step up and deliver a strong Global #PlasticsTreaty that cuts plastic production:

Let’s end the age of plastic! - Greenpeace International

I support a strong Global Plastics Treaty that cuts plastic production so that we can finally turn off the tap and end the age of plastic - for our communities, our country, and our planet. Join me

www.greenpeace.org

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · Aug 14

“Water from Nestlé’s Contrex and Hépar brands contains microplastic concentrations so extreme that scientists say they shatter environmental baselines.”

A new microplastic study every week should not be the new normal.

French report links Nestlé bottled waters to record microplastic contamination

French investigators have uncovered microplastic contamination in two of Nestlé’s top mineral water brands, sparking a renewed legal battle and fresh calls for tougher environmental regulation.

www.rfi.fr

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joelleherin.bsky.social @joelleherin.bsky.social · Aug 14

Question is: will the next text iteration bring back the key topics of plastic production and dangerous chemicals and the possibility to vote at the COPs? #BreakFreeFromPlastic @de.greenpeace.ch @fr.greenpeace.ch

Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · Aug 14

#PlasticsTreaty talks are stalled over lack of ambition, with the Chair’s draft being described by Greenpeace International as a “gift to the petrochemical industry & a betrayal of humanity."

🚨⏳Govts have hours to stand up & deliver a treaty that cuts production.

Talks stall on world’s first plastic pollution treaty one day before deadline

Almost 100 countries reject draft treaty as ‘unambitious’ and ‘inadequate’

www.theguardian.com

joelleherin.bsky.social @joelleherin.bsky.social · Aug 14

A weak treaty would fail the world. The suspense is intense in this (supposedly) last night. #BreakFreeFromPlastic @fr.greenpeace.ch @de.greenpeace.ch

Break Free From Plastic @breakfreefromplastic.org · Aug 14

✊🌍 HIGHLIGHTS: Ahead of the final plenary a coalition of member states, scientists, civil society groups & rights-holders united for a press conference with one message:

📢 A weak treaty fails the world. Delegates must choose ambition to protect people & the planet! #PlasticsTreaty #INC52

joelleherin.bsky.social @joelleherin.bsky.social · Aug 12

As #PlasticsTreaty talks stall, a 🆕 @Greenpeace International report finds #microplastics in the air that surround leaders as they negotiate in Geneva.

@uvek.bsky.social🇨🇭 must step up & deliver a treaty that cuts plastic production to reduce microplastics!

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Greenpeace air sampling in Geneva finds microplastics in urban air - Greenpeace International

As governments enter the second week of the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations, the research highlights an invisible but widespread part of the plastic pollution crisis.

www.greenpeace.org

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · Aug 9

1/ 🚨On Day 5 of #PlasticsTreaty talks, Greenpeace was outside the UN along with 🌎civil society, scientists, wastepickers, youth, Frontline and Indigenous voices from around the world, calling out governments for derailing treaty negotiations!

#INC5-2

8 August 2025 - Civil society coalition mobilization at the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. Civil society organizations, waste pickers, frontline communities, Indigenous Peoples, scientists, healthcare professionals, children and youth, women, businesses, and non-governmental organisations did a silent protest and held messages demanding negotiators to keep their promise, fix the process and end plastic pollution as delegates enter the plenary session of the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland. © Greenpeace / Marie Jacquemin

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Greenpeace Suisse @fr.greenpeace.ch · Aug 9

Notre commentaire à mi-chemin des négociations sur le #PlasticsTreaty

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Traité sur les plastique: réaction de Greenpeace à mi-chemin des négociations - Greenpeace Suisse

En réaction à la séance plénière qui s’est tenue aujourd’hui dans le cadre de du traité mondial contre la pollution plastique (INC5.2) et qui marque le milieu de cette session…

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Break Free From Plastic @breakfreefromplastic.org · Aug 9

🇪🇹Ethiopia: the "fundamental barrier for an agreement is the insistence on consensus, which has been used to hold the process hostage" - We agree! #FixTheProcess #PlasticsTreaty Now!

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Break Free From Plastic @breakfreefromplastic.org · Aug 9

🇺🇾Uruguay: "consensus cannot be used as an excuse for not achieving our objectives," including measures regarding chemicals, plastic production, and protections to human health

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Break Free From Plastic @breakfreefromplastic.org · Aug 9

We are half way through #INC52 #PlasticsTreaty negotiations.

Follow us for updates from the second plenary session and WATCH LIVE via www.unep.org/inc-plastic-...

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joelleherin.bsky.social @joelleherin.bsky.social · Aug 9

At this half way point, as progress is lacking, ambitious countries need to be bold, including #Switzerland @uvek.bsky.social #INC52 #BreakFreeFromPlastic #plasticsTreaty

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