This #GlobalFertilizerDay, let’s call it clearly: fertilizers are #fossilfuels in disguise.

This means when gas prices rise, food prices rise too —fertilizer companies profit while farmers and families pay.

Read more ⤵️
ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...

@ciel.org @ipes-food.org @grain.org

Penultimate day of the last scheduled #PlasticsTreaty negotiations and Kuwait speaks again on behalf of the 'Like-minded countries', a group that has NEVER disclosed its membership. As far as we know it could be Kuwait and 1 other country. The bad faith is blatant, the gaslighting is disgusting.

Closing plenary of #INC5

Juan Carlos Monterrey from Panama is winning the powerful punchline contest again...

'Plastic pollution is not an environmental crisis, it is a moral failure'

No agreement. Heading to #INC5.2

"Delay is death"

#PlasticsTreaty

While a minority of petrostates are weaponizing consensus to block an ambitious #PlasticsTreaty, over 100 nations are championing ambition on production reduction, chemicals of concerns and financial mechanisms.

Their message is clear: work with us or get out of the way!

May they #holdtheline

Indigenous Peoples asking for the right to speak in the stock-tacking plenary at #INC5... blatantly ignored by the Chair, despite request from Tuvalu to let them speak 😡

#letthemspeak #PlasticsTreaty

And the Fijian delegate wons the award of the best quote of the day 💫

'Brackets are backpocket ammunitions for those with low ambition. To break free from plastics, we need to break free from brackets.'

#PlasticsTreaty #INC5 #breakfreefromplastic #breakfreefrombrackets

You know things are not going well in a negotiation when Switzerland says they are 'frustrated and disappointed'...

Day 3 and progress is slow on the #PlasticsTreaty.

Meanwhile, the 220 fossil fuel and chemical lobbyists registered for #INC5 must be jubilating 😈

Read www.ciel.org/news/inc-5-l...

As the discussions on the scope of the #PlasticsTreaty are continuing, despite a very clear mandate, the amazing art of @visualthinkery.bsky.social for @bffp.bsky.social makes clear what 'a full life-cycle approach' means... and doesn't!

To end plastic pollution, we need to address its production!

Registrations to #INC5 closed in Sept & @unep.bsky.social knew that there were 3000 observers registered, and about to go on a long and expensive travel to be there. Yet, rooms for in depth negotiations are tiny. Folks are queuing 1h before start to have hope to get a seat.

This is unacceptable.

Opening plenary of the 5th and last scheduled round of negotiations of the #PlasticsTreaty...

Hearing the Chair say that we are here to craft 'a Treaty as ambitious as our collective will allows' while seeing large delegations of numerous petrostates in the room made me cringe a little...

Full room for this very first event of a long series, on how to mobilize finance to implement the future #PlasticsTreaty

By a show of hands, there is only 1 private bank representative, a couple of World Bank folks, and more than a dozen private lobbyists. Off to a good start 🙃

#LiveFromBusan

New data shows EU plastic production dropped 8.3% from 2022-23, as a result of the sector's unsustainable focus on profit. But there is more to this than meets the eye... 👇

rethinkplasticalliance.eu/news/plastic...

#PlasticsEurope #plasticpollution
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