{"id":395954,"date":"2025-08-18T19:07:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=395954"},"modified":"2025-08-18T19:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:07:55","slug":"un-plastics-treaty-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=395954","title":{"rendered":"UN plastics treaty collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"A<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A
two hand holding smart phone with blank screen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The United Nations adjourned its plastics summit in Geneva, Switzerland, with no version of a global treaty coming close to reaching \u201cconsensus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is great news for the global economy, as radical proposals sought to place taxes and controls on every phase of plastic production and use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UN plastics summit tried to follow the climate conference script, where launching into late-night overtime is standard. Bleary eyes, however, induced no parties to alter their positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developing nations and the EU were unable to convince manufacturing and petroleum-producing nations to agree on a draft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The anti-plastics nations attempted to kill production via a death by a thousand cuts strategy, by calling for the elimination of important chemicals used in plastics production. The pro-plastics nations saw through the ploy and blocked it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plastics have been a crucial factor in enabling people at every economic level to afford high-quality manufactured goods. They are essential to societal abundance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ideal solution is to keep plastic in our economies, but to do a great job at managing recycling and waste. Nations with advanced economies have already made huge strides. The vast majority of plastic pollution in the oceans comes from fishing gear and a few rivers in Asia and Africa. Forbidding the use of plastic straws in Paris or Peoria achieves nothing meaningful to combat this waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As CFACT President Craig Rucker recently wrote<\/a>, \u201cThe real tragedy isn\u2019t plastic itself, but the mismanagement of plastic waste\u2014and the regulatory stranglehold that blocks better solutions. In many countries, recycling is a government-run monopoly with little incentive to innovate. Meanwhile, private-sector entrepreneurs working on advanced recycling, biodegradable materials, and AI-powered sorting systems face burdensome red tape and market distortion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new UN regime of taxation, mandates, and bans is not the way to deal with the issues surrounding plastics (or pretty much anything else). Working with developing nations to up their recycling and waste management is the way to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United Nations adjourned its plastics summit in Geneva, Switzerland, with no version of a global treaty coming close to reaching \u201cconsensus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":395959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818427,691825837,691828575,691837356,691837354,691837355,691824179],"class_list":["post-395954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-consensus","tag-global-economy","tag-plastics","tag-recycling-and-waste","tag-taxes-and-controls","tag-un-plastics-summit","tag-united-nations-un","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0AQNvBE5NpmK0jIgadbNHcnGyCjiJ6j_7FbyxlGCJlYAjESGCdIhv2RUucHagBn-pEFD1wa9Z9TTjjd8szSQ97z8BqTIVCEFHJAXarecIQEtgOVQ2owtoMMf_rkycUc4xESv6J2Lne0l_iSA_o_V98VEC8_79cQ-1.jpeg?fit=1280%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1F0m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":389023,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=389023","url_meta":{"origin":395954,"position":0},"title":"UN\u2019s \u2018plastics treaty\u2019 sports a junk science wrapper","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/16\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Just as people were beginning to breathe a sigh of relief thanks to the Trump administration\u2019s rollback of onerous climate policies, the United Nations is set to finalize a legally binding Global Plastics Treaty by the end of the year that will impose new regulations and, ultimately, higher costs on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"global plastic waste\"","block_context":{"text":"global plastic waste","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=global-plastic-waste"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/00pj059_Plastic_Jesus_Stop_Making_Stupid_People_Famous_Grey_with_Red_letters_Stencil_Acrylic_on_Paper_Unframed_24x22_sale_1150_Framed_24x30_1300_edition_of_1_master-1.webp?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/00pj059_Plastic_Jesus_Stop_Making_Stupid_People_Famous_Grey_with_Red_letters_Stencil_Acrylic_on_Paper_Unframed_24x22_sale_1150_Framed_24x30_1300_edition_of_1_master-1.webp?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/00pj059_Plastic_Jesus_Stop_Making_Stupid_People_Famous_Grey_with_Red_letters_Stencil_Acrylic_on_Paper_Unframed_24x22_sale_1150_Framed_24x30_1300_edition_of_1_master-1.webp?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/00pj059_Plastic_Jesus_Stop_Making_Stupid_People_Famous_Grey_with_Red_letters_Stencil_Acrylic_on_Paper_Unframed_24x22_sale_1150_Framed_24x30_1300_edition_of_1_master-1.webp?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/00pj059_Plastic_Jesus_Stop_Making_Stupid_People_Famous_Grey_with_Red_letters_Stencil_Acrylic_on_Paper_Unframed_24x22_sale_1150_Framed_24x30_1300_edition_of_1_master-1.webp?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":424104,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=424104","url_meta":{"origin":395954,"position":1},"title":"CFACT takes down UN assault on plastic","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/01\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"In early November 2025, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF), in close collaboration with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), released the 2030 Plastics Agenda for Business. This document serves as a forward-looking, business-oriented blueprint and roadmap building directly on the Global Commitment initiative (launched in 2018 by EMF and UNEP), which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"2030 Plastics Agenda for Business\"","block_context":{"text":"2030 Plastics Agenda for Business","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=2030-plastics-agenda-for-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0Screenshot-2026-02-01-125531.png?fit=1200%2C892&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0Screenshot-2026-02-01-125531.png?fit=1200%2C892&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0Screenshot-2026-02-01-125531.png?fit=1200%2C892&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0Screenshot-2026-02-01-125531.png?fit=1200%2C892&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0Screenshot-2026-02-01-125531.png?fit=1200%2C892&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":420854,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=420854","url_meta":{"origin":395954,"position":2},"title":"Day of Liberation from UN Climate Entities (among\u00a0others)","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"01\/10\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"President Donald Trump has initiated the withdrawal of the United States from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), often described as the \"bedrock\" global climate treaty.","rel":"","context":"In \"global climate treaty\"","block_context":{"text":"global climate treaty","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=global-climate-treaty"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQMo_S42c-FeIsRfkAzUoFCoyeJ0xQaBgpHAuHrXCcUHTLvShllRsfedCEqMKLCsxhaaurJv3R47YAbJdRof6HrUh-RsUdrDMewwE2u3zUdDMQgW_mY9lDMt5EaKLWg5.jpeg?fit=1200%2C686&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQMo_S42c-FeIsRfkAzUoFCoyeJ0xQaBgpHAuHrXCcUHTLvShllRsfedCEqMKLCsxhaaurJv3R47YAbJdRof6HrUh-RsUdrDMewwE2u3zUdDMQgW_mY9lDMt5EaKLWg5.jpeg?fit=1200%2C686&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQMo_S42c-FeIsRfkAzUoFCoyeJ0xQaBgpHAuHrXCcUHTLvShllRsfedCEqMKLCsxhaaurJv3R47YAbJdRof6HrUh-RsUdrDMewwE2u3zUdDMQgW_mY9lDMt5EaKLWg5.jpeg?fit=1200%2C686&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQMo_S42c-FeIsRfkAzUoFCoyeJ0xQaBgpHAuHrXCcUHTLvShllRsfedCEqMKLCsxhaaurJv3R47YAbJdRof6HrUh-RsUdrDMewwE2u3zUdDMQgW_mY9lDMt5EaKLWg5.jpeg?fit=1200%2C686&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQMo_S42c-FeIsRfkAzUoFCoyeJ0xQaBgpHAuHrXCcUHTLvShllRsfedCEqMKLCsxhaaurJv3R47YAbJdRof6HrUh-RsUdrDMewwE2u3zUdDMQgW_mY9lDMt5EaKLWg5.jpeg?fit=1200%2C686&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":416417,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=416417","url_meta":{"origin":395954,"position":3},"title":"COP30 Round-Up: Failure of a UN Climate Summit Is Great News for Humanity!","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"12\/07\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Thank You, Mr. President! Trump\u2019s masterclasses move not to send U.S. delegation, blamed (credited) for the failure of UN climate summit COP30! POLITICO reported that the \u2018U.S. absence allowed\u2019 BRICS nations \u201cto team up with petrostates, isolating the more green-oriented European Union and refusing to countenance even a reiteration of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"China\"","block_context":{"text":"China","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=china"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AQM7Nr4Xx6lfn4NtpkYhyfKnrWzr8GEQ8QRQ0KU2_pQuWbDyesnje7LVNLitmq_YeMQceuDIguNNgvcwvwRhE4nnIAL_LP1c5dLF3V5lDRlf8VBS91XkPx5jzQ7_EMy4.jpeg?fit=1200%2C664&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AQM7Nr4Xx6lfn4NtpkYhyfKnrWzr8GEQ8QRQ0KU2_pQuWbDyesnje7LVNLitmq_YeMQceuDIguNNgvcwvwRhE4nnIAL_LP1c5dLF3V5lDRlf8VBS91XkPx5jzQ7_EMy4.jpeg?fit=1200%2C664&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AQM7Nr4Xx6lfn4NtpkYhyfKnrWzr8GEQ8QRQ0KU2_pQuWbDyesnje7LVNLitmq_YeMQceuDIguNNgvcwvwRhE4nnIAL_LP1c5dLF3V5lDRlf8VBS91XkPx5jzQ7_EMy4.jpeg?fit=1200%2C664&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AQM7Nr4Xx6lfn4NtpkYhyfKnrWzr8GEQ8QRQ0KU2_pQuWbDyesnje7LVNLitmq_YeMQceuDIguNNgvcwvwRhE4nnIAL_LP1c5dLF3V5lDRlf8VBS91XkPx5jzQ7_EMy4.jpeg?fit=1200%2C664&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AQM7Nr4Xx6lfn4NtpkYhyfKnrWzr8GEQ8QRQ0KU2_pQuWbDyesnje7LVNLitmq_YeMQceuDIguNNgvcwvwRhE4nnIAL_LP1c5dLF3V5lDRlf8VBS91XkPx5jzQ7_EMy4.jpeg?fit=1200%2C664&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":423120,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=423120","url_meta":{"origin":395954,"position":4},"title":"Trump withdraws from UN Framework Convention; ends illusion we\u2019ll always have Paris","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"01\/25\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"President Trump is withdrawing the United States from 66 intergovernmental organizations he has determined are \u201ccontrary to the interests of the United States.\u201d This is a big deal, especially the president\u2019s decision to withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the foundational treaty for global climate policy.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa.jpeg?fit=1200%2C891&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa.jpeg?fit=1200%2C891&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa.jpeg?fit=1200%2C891&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa.jpeg?fit=1200%2C891&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa.jpeg?fit=1200%2C891&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":421600,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=421600","url_meta":{"origin":395954,"position":5},"title":"Rejecting Climatism: Trump Withdraws from UNFCCC and 66 International Organizations","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"01\/16\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The Trump administration has issued an\u00a0executive order\u00a0that withdraws the United States from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and other international bodies. The order pulls the US back from organizations pursuing climate policies and other efforts that the administration does not consider to be in the national\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0AQOWgtMCM3wlngsLE4QNXOXJ-XCJHicDhT4qU7F51ZKS-4q6wZuwjm8QJ_0c518N6wvycSL8nxAv3m19TN1aFNJGVbFbjAqtpvICa3zXBFf0u_ScldC2m2Qc-LkSRw-Y-1.jpeg?fit=1159%2C747&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0AQOWgtMCM3wlngsLE4QNXOXJ-XCJHicDhT4qU7F51ZKS-4q6wZuwjm8QJ_0c518N6wvycSL8nxAv3m19TN1aFNJGVbFbjAqtpvICa3zXBFf0u_ScldC2m2Qc-LkSRw-Y-1.jpeg?fit=1159%2C747&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0AQOWgtMCM3wlngsLE4QNXOXJ-XCJHicDhT4qU7F51ZKS-4q6wZuwjm8QJ_0c518N6wvycSL8nxAv3m19TN1aFNJGVbFbjAqtpvICa3zXBFf0u_ScldC2m2Qc-LkSRw-Y-1.jpeg?fit=1159%2C747&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0AQOWgtMCM3wlngsLE4QNXOXJ-XCJHicDhT4qU7F51ZKS-4q6wZuwjm8QJ_0c518N6wvycSL8nxAv3m19TN1aFNJGVbFbjAqtpvICa3zXBFf0u_ScldC2m2Qc-LkSRw-Y-1.jpeg?fit=1159%2C747&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0AQOWgtMCM3wlngsLE4QNXOXJ-XCJHicDhT4qU7F51ZKS-4q6wZuwjm8QJ_0c518N6wvycSL8nxAv3m19TN1aFNJGVbFbjAqtpvICa3zXBFf0u_ScldC2m2Qc-LkSRw-Y-1.jpeg?fit=1159%2C747&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121246920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395954"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395961,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395954\/revisions\/395961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/395959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}