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Gaps and synergies between proposals for a Global Plastics Treaty and existing Multilateral Environmental Agreements

This legal brief analyses the gaps and synergies across existing Multilateral Environmental Agreements and other international treaty regimes to address plastic pollution and the interplay of the proposals for a Plastics Treaty with those treaty regimes.

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In this legal briefing, funded by NORAD and developed with the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, we highlight the ways in which multiple multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) could be connected to issues relating to plastic pollution as well as the significant gaps in their jurisdiction, which makes a global instrument addressing plastic pollution necessary.

Specifically, MEAs such as the Basel Convention, the Rotterdam Convention and the Stockholm Convention, the Minamata Convention on Mercury and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, as well as the “Global Framework on Chemicals and the recently established new “Science-Policy Panel on chemicals, waste and pollution (ISP-CWP)”, and other global and regional Conventions, address parts of the plastic pollution crisis but not all aspects of it.

Gaps and synergies between proposals for a Global Plastics Treaty and existing Multilateral Environmental Agreements

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