This week sees the second meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC), INC-2, take place in Paris, where countries will discuss an options paper that will be used as the basis for discussions at the meeting.
It is the next step in a process that began in February 2022, at the resumed fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2), when a historic resolution was adopted to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment.
