Christina Dixon is the Ocean Campaign Leader at the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), responsible for overseeing a team of legal, campaigning and policy experts working on various multilateral, regional and national policy processes related to ocean and plastics governance. Having worked for EIA during the ad-hoc open-ended expert working group process, multiple UNEA sessions and…
Dr Alexandra R. Harrington is a Visiting Scholar at the McGill University Faculty of Law and Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law Agreement on Plastic Pollution Task Force. She is a legal delegate for the IUCN at the Global Plastics Treaty, where she also advises and represents several West African countries, as…
I am Dominic Bowen, and I am the host of the International Risk Podcast. At 7am on the 15th of August, after ten days of marathon sessions and a final overtime session that stretched more than 24 hours, the Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution formally adjourned INC-5.2. What was meant…
“Consensus is worth seeking if it moves us forward, not if it stalls the process” Senimili Nakora, Fiji Delegate at The UN Plastic Treaty Talks in Geneva At 7am on 15 August 2025, the chair of the UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on plastic pollution formally closed what was meant to be the final negotiation…
