Legal analysis of the INC Chair’s Non-Paper for INC-5
In advance of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5), Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ has provided this briefing, in response to the Chair's Non-Paper 3.
Building on the , and in effort to find pathways to achieving an ILBI, the Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the adoption of an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC) drafted three versions of a Non-Paper on the way forward for the negotiations to deliver an ILBI within the ambitious timeframe set forth in UNEA Resolution 5/14. The first Non-Paper was the basis for closed-door sessions for Heads of Delegation in early October 2024 in Nairobi. The outcomes of these meetings were used to inform a subsequent second iteration that was narrowly circulated and the third iteration of the Non-Paper was released on 30 October 2024
The Chair’s Non-Paper has been offered as a proposed alternative negotiating text to guide progress toward efforts at completing a full ILBI text during INC-5.Â
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