Corporate Lobbying at Plastics Treaty
Pressure from fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbiests whose record attendance outnumbers Indigenous voices. Calls to ban their influence and U.S. attempts to block production cap.
- Kick Big Oil Out of Plastics Talks - Greenpeace UK 483620
- A new report by InfluenceMap analyzes the plastic value chain’s advocacy on the UN Global Plastics Treaty and regional climate related-circular economy policies - Influence M… 483558
- Competing axes of power in the global plastics treaty: Understanding the politics of progress and setbacks in negotiating a high-ambition agreement - Science Direct 11/25 483562
- Corporate Greed and National Interests Torpedoed the UN Plastics Treaty - CD 19.08.25 486733
- As Deadline Looms, Advocates Call Plastics Treaty Draft 'Nothing Short of a Betrayal' - CD 13.08.25 483853
- ‘Scandal’: Chemical and fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber scientists at Plastic Treaty talks, analysis finds - Ends Report 09.08.25 483563
- The UN Plastics Treaty Must Confront Fossil Fuel Power - CommonDreams 08.08.25 483619
- Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Swarm ‘Last Chance’ UN Plastics Treaty Talks - Health Policy Watch 08.08.25 483527
- Who’s who at the plastics treaty talks, from delegates to lobbyists - Grist 08.08.25 483561
- Greenpeace Calls for Oil Giants' Ejection From Global Plastics Summit - CD 07.08.25 483621
- Inside the corporate lobbying shaping Geneva’s plastics treaty talks - Geneva Solutions 07.08.25 483555
- Greenpeace activists paint Geneva streets black to call out Big Oil’s chokehold on Global Plastic Treaty talks, demand UN kicks out fossil fuel lobbyists - Greenpeace 07.08.25 483578
- More than 200 lobbyists at UN’s plastic treaty talks will limit progress, campaigners warn - Guardian 07.08.25 483554
- Fossil Fuel and Petrochemical Lobbyists Overrun Plastics Treaty Negotiations - CIEL 07.08.25 (must read) 483495
- Exclusive: Trump administration memo urges countries to reject plastic production caps in UN Treaty - Reuters 06.08.25 483553
- Big plastic polluting brands spotted at global plastics treaty - SAS 06.08.25 483559
- US rollbacks imperil global plastic treaty - China Daily 06.08.25 483526
- Corporations and Lobbyists Undermining Global Plastics Treaty - Tired Earth 05.08.25 483560
- Oil producer pressure, Trump rollbacks threaten global treaty on plastics pollution - Reuters 04.08.25 483528
- Greenpeace report exposes petrochemical giants’ campaign to derail Global Plastics Treaty - Greenpeace 29.07.25 483556
- ‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks - Guardian 23.07.25 483538
- Report: Plastics, Profits and Power: How petrochemical companies are derailing the Global Plastics Treaty - Greenpeace 07/25 483557
- The petrochemical historical bloc: Exposing the extent and depth of opposition to a high-ambition plastics treaty - Cambridge Prisms 24.06.25 483618
- Meet the unexpected villains of the plastic pollution crisis - Greenpeace 30.05.25 483571
- How Saudi Arabia became the world’s plastic cheerleader - Politico 14.01.25 483617
- Plastic pollution treaty blocked by 'small group of countries' at UN talks - RNZ 06.12.24 443477
- ‘The process is broken’: Major oil producing countries kill UN plastics treaty over cap on production - Bulletin 05.12.24 443474
- UN treaty talks extended after usual roadblocks - Resource Recycling 03.12.24 443481
- UN Plastic Pollution Treaty Derailed as Fossil Fuel Nations Block Production Limits - Health Policy Watch 03.12.24 443471
- Coca-Cola Doubles Down on Single-Use Plastic, Abandons Reduction and Reuse Goals in Wake of Stalled Plastic Treaty Negotiations - Oceana 03.12.24 483565
- Coca-Cola accused of quietly dropping its 25% reusable packaging target - Guardian 03.12.24 483566
- Oil States Play Spoiler in Failed Plastics Treaty Negotiations - Yale Environment 02.12.24 443483
- Oil Producers Block Binding UN Treaty to Curb Plastics - Oil Price 02.12.24 443463
- Plastic pollution: Big Oil "dancing for joy" over Treaty talks collapse - Oceanographic 02.12.24 483568
- UN plastics treaty talks fail after oil producers block output limits - Financial Times 01.12.24 443473
- Major Plastic Polluters Win as UN Treaty Talks Conclude Without Agreement - CD 01.12.24 443396
- How the petrochemical lobby is stalling global treaty negotiations on plastic pollution - Le Monde 29.11.24 483574
- Fossil fuel lobby secures “record” access to crunch talks on new plastics pact - Climate Home News 28.11.24 483573
- Over 200 petrochemical lobbyists have been at negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty - Canary 28.11.24 483575
- Plastics lobbyists make up biggest group at vital UN treaty talks - Guardian 27.11.24 442529
- The Biggest Delegation at Plastic Treaty Talks? Plastic Industry Lobbyists - CD 27.11.24 444494
- Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Flood Final Scheduled Round of Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations - CIEL 27.11.24 483564
- Companies behind campaign to ‘end plastic waste’ produced 1,000 times more plastic than it cleaned up - Unearthed 20.11.24 483576
- ‘Privileged access’: pro-plastic lobbyists at UN pollution talks increase by a third - Guardian 25.04.24 408921
- Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution - Guardian 24.04.24 483567
- Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Swarm UN Treaty Talks on Plastics Pollution - Mother jones 23.11.23 385236
- Plastics Treaty Negotiations Held Hostage by Small Handful of Oil-Producing Countries - Pressenza 20.11.23 385735
- Companies Pushing Weak UN Plastics Treaty Dump Millions Into US Elections - CD 17.11.23 385920
- Big Food’s greenwash looms over plastics treaty talks - Corporate Accountability 07.11.23 483572
- Report: Alliance to End Plastic Waste: Barely Credible - Planet Tracker 08/22 483577
- Manufacturers lobby to weaken UN global plastics treaty proposal - FT 24.02.22 483569
- Talking Trash: the corporate playbook of false solutions to the plastic crisis - Changing Markets 09/20 483570