{"id":430678,"date":"2026-03-12T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=430678"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:00:48","slug":"theyve-nearly-given-up-on-climate-plastics-will-be-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=430678","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019ve nearly given up on climate \u2014 plastics will be next"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United Nations\u2019 climate crisis express has slammed to a halt on the tracks. It\u2019s not hard to see why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration has slashed funding for climate initiatives<\/a>, yanked America out of the Paris Agreement<\/a>, scrapped electric vehicle mandates<\/a>, and repealed the<\/a> Endangerment Finding<\/a> that once underpinned sweeping regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the global stage, the UN COP30 climate talks collapsed with no real international commitments to phase out fossil fuels<\/a>. Meanwhile, China \u2014 the world\u2019s top greenhouse gas emitter by a long way \u2014 keeps ramping up new coal power plant construction at a blistering pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around the world, everyday people are fed up. In the name of saving the planet, net-zero carbon policies are driving skyrocketing energy bills, blackouts and plummeting living standards. Unelected bureaucrats pretend that, through the sacrifice of others, they can tame Earth\u2019s naturally variable climate. They have taken it upon themselves to micromanage people\u2019s lives by forcing us to abandon the fossil fuels that still provide 87 percent of global energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what\u2019s next for the eco-zealots running the UN? They\u2019re pivoting to a new battlefield: the so-called \u201cplastics crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November 2025, the UN Environment Program teamed up with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to roll out the 2030 Plastics Agenda for Business<\/a>. Billed as an \u201cevidence-based\u201d and \u201cpractical\u201d global framework, it is really designed to morph voluntary corporate sustainability promises into binding international policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agenda seeks to eliminate plastic waste and pollution by rallying governments, businesses, and \u201cstakeholders\u201d to \u201ccatalyze market transformations,\u201d enforce standardized packaging designs, force national laws into a single \u201ccircular economy\u201d mold, and reshape entire markets collectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It calls for \u201croot cause\u201d solutions: eliminating unnecessary plastics, innovating toward reuse models and alternative materials, and recirculating what we still need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real pitch? Obeisance to UN plastic directives will deliver \u201cprofound benefits\u201d to the economy, nature, people, and societies \u2014 backed by a \u201cshared vision\u201d already endorsed by more than 1,200 organizations worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This bureaucratic gobbledygook appeals to some. Unfortunately, like much that comes out of the UN, it is all a ruse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To grasp the UN\u2019s true playbook, one need only look at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Launched in 1988 to study how human activities and emissions might influence climate, it quickly morphed into a sprawling government-activist-industrial complex that insists humans are the primary driver of climate change<\/a>\u2014 and that therefore our lifestyles must be heavily regulated \u2026 by them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The point is that they need a very, very large amount of money to do this. Cue endless demands for massive budgets: $100 billion, $250 billion, $500 billion, even trillions. That money gets funneled into outfits they create, like the Green Climate Fund, to ensure that everything is done properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now just apply that same formula to plastics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, plastic pollution is real. But roughly 80 percent of plastic wastes reaching the oceans<\/a> comes from Asia \u2014 especially mismanaged waste from countries such as China, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Massive population centers dump packaging and other plastics into waterways because of widespread poverty, weak governance, poor waste management infrastructure, and lack of funds for modern programs and technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the UN genuinely wants to curb plastics pollution, it should strong-arm China (and others) into real action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But good luck with that. China rarely embraces binding commitments in earnest, since it is the world\u2019s biggest emitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plastics are essential for a vast array of items we use every day. That includes eyeglass lenses and frames, smartphones and computers, vehicle parts, synthetic fabrics, medical devices, and packaging that extends food shelf-life by fighting insects and bacteria. Plastics safeguard medicines, protect shipped goods, and deliver life-saving supplies affordably to remote areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plastics and plastic packaging drive the world economy, employ millions globally in numerous industries, and are essential to human nutrition, health, well-being and affordability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actual progress to reduce the downside of the use of plastics \u2014 specifically litter \u2014 will require helping poorer countries achieve the level of development, infrastructure, incomes, and environmental responsibility that wealthy countries currently enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That means UN bureaucrats and eco-activists will have to stop opposing economic development<\/a>, which will by necessity include wider use of fossil fuels and nuclear power. They will have to stop dictating to poor countries what level of \u201cecologically feasible development<\/a>\u201d they will be permitted to pursue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It means providing expertise and financing to help countries become wealthier, modernize waste collection and processing, and construct waste-to-energy power<\/a> plants<\/a> that convert trash into affordable all-day electricity, while reclaiming glass and metals that otherwise cannot be recycled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one wants plastic trash strewn about. But we don\u2019t need another bloated UN program to handle it by orchestrating top-down controls, market distortions, and endless funding streams. Real solutions start with better civics education, policing of bad behavior and local infrastructure where the problems actually originate \u2014 not global agendas that sidestep these hard truths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared in The Hill<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United Nations\u2019 climate crisis express has slammed to a halt on the tracks. It\u2019s not hard to see why.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has slashed funding for climate initiatives, yanked America out of the Paris Agreement, scrapped electric vehicle mandates, and repealed the Endangerment Finding that once underpinned sweeping regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":430679,"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":[691818056,691841852,691841851,691822621,691841850,691824179],"class_list":["post-430678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-plastic-pollution","tag-plastics-crisis","tag-un-environment-programme-unep","tag-un-plastic-directives","tag-united-nations-un","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0Screenshot-2026-03-12-124918.png?fit=1355%2C899&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1O2q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":421300,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=421300","url_meta":{"origin":430678,"position":0},"title":"Climate Policy 2025: Much Good News","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"01\/14\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The bad news was really good in the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0stocktaking, \u201cHow Trump\u2019s First Year Reshaped U.S. Energy and Climate Policy,\u201d subtitled \u201cThe sweeping changes have affected everything from coal plant retirements to international diplomacy over shipping emissions.\u201d Four Times reporters\u2014Brad Plumer,\u00a0Lisa Friedman,\u00a0Maxine Joselow,\u00a0and\u00a0Scott Dance-summarized the Trump Administration\u2019s ethics-driven course change.\u00a0","rel":"","context":"In \"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)\"","block_context":{"text":"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=carbon-dioxide-co%e2%82%82"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQOknM8KjkhcOqhAwRTIAFaxoVcNF1uWkal4gwx76Fir975uG9Z16EC74asaNKEiZf9DSDx1bOxJVyU8M5djNGlD_C_gmZo-AkVx5JtKtCOPHFQXHrr36JYfbqb_Eihq-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\/AQOknM8KjkhcOqhAwRTIAFaxoVcNF1uWkal4gwx76Fir975uG9Z16EC74asaNKEiZf9DSDx1bOxJVyU8M5djNGlD_C_gmZo-AkVx5JtKtCOPHFQXHrr36JYfbqb_Eihq-1.jpeg?fit=1159%2C747&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQOknM8KjkhcOqhAwRTIAFaxoVcNF1uWkal4gwx76Fir975uG9Z16EC74asaNKEiZf9DSDx1bOxJVyU8M5djNGlD_C_gmZo-AkVx5JtKtCOPHFQXHrr36JYfbqb_Eihq-1.jpeg?fit=1159%2C747&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQOknM8KjkhcOqhAwRTIAFaxoVcNF1uWkal4gwx76Fir975uG9Z16EC74asaNKEiZf9DSDx1bOxJVyU8M5djNGlD_C_gmZo-AkVx5JtKtCOPHFQXHrr36JYfbqb_Eihq-1.jpeg?fit=1159%2C747&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQOknM8KjkhcOqhAwRTIAFaxoVcNF1uWkal4gwx76Fir975uG9Z16EC74asaNKEiZf9DSDx1bOxJVyU8M5djNGlD_C_gmZo-AkVx5JtKtCOPHFQXHrr36JYfbqb_Eihq-1.jpeg?fit=1159%2C747&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":405971,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=405971","url_meta":{"origin":430678,"position":1},"title":"Green Meltdown: Trump\u2019s Second Term Breaks the Back of Climate Activism","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/30\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"When President Trump took office for his second term, it was clear from the moment he started signing executive orders in the Oval Office that he had every intention of implementing his plans to reverse the Obama-Biden climate crisis agenda. 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