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Plastics Negotiations Update - Part 2: Post-INC 5.3 to the present

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Guest blog by  Craig Boljkovac,  Independent International Environmental Consultant,  Senior Advisor, and Lecturer Basel/Stockholm Convention Regional Centres (Asia-Pacific)/Tsinghua University School of Environment · Part-time . Recently, there have been some significant developments regarding negotiations, convened by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) for a global plastics treaty. This is the second of two brief blogs bringing things up-to-date. The first covered the one-day INC 5.3 held in Geneva, in early February, 2026. As mentioned in Part 1, a new INC President, Ambassador Julio Cordano of Chile, was elected at INC 5.3 (along with a new rapporteur and Bureau member representing SIDs countries). He immediately got down to work, sending an introductory letter to delegations and stakeholders shortly after his election. While his “campaign” speeches before INC 5.3 were short on specifics, his first letter to delegations (dated 19 February, 2026) was a good start. ...
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Bringing Governance Levels Closer Together through Water and Climate Resilience

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Guest Blog by Dani Gaillard-Picher , who is Senior Policy Advisor for the Water Resilience Tracker at the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation.   While working on my master’s degree in Global Development Management, I became fascinated by one persistent challenge in sustainable development: the gap between global processes and local action. I remember suggesting this subject as a thesis to one of my advisors who just sort of shook his head and said, “Ah yes, the eternal conundrum…” Central governments design policies. Local governments implement them. Yet, even when they agree on the same overall goals, global, national and local actors operate in entirely different political, institutional and practical spheres with very different time horizons. Sometimes the complexity of implementation is vastly underestimated or is not accompanied by sufficient resources. Policies that sometimes work beautifully on paper, struggle in practice. Years later, this “eternal conundrum” st...
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Plastics Negotiations Update Part I: The One-day INC 5.3

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Craig Boljkovac, Independent International Environmental Consultant,  Senior Advisor, and Lecturer Basel/Stockholm Convention Regional Centres (Asia-Pacific)/Tsinghua University School of Environment · Part-time Recently, there have been some significant developments regarding negotiations, convened by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) for a global plastics treaty. This is the first of two brief blogs bringing things up-to-date.  A brief, one-day session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC 5.3) took place on 7 February 2026 in Geneva (back-to-back with the clearly stalled negotiations to initiate an of the Intergovernmental Science and Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution ( ISP-CWP) – more on that in a separate blog). To briefly summarize, INC 5.3 was held due to the resignation of the President of the negotiations, an Ambassador Luis Vayas Valdivieso from Ecuador who unfortunately struggled to find a way forward for the negotiations. The sess...
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UN Environemnt March Newsletter

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  Your March Briefing   ...
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