In December 2024, over 170 countries gathered to conclude a global treaty to reach a plastic pollution-free world by 2040. While negotiations were inconclusive, the countries sought to complete the process in 2025, highlighting an urgent, time-bound need to bridge remaining areas of divergence. What will it take to land the treaty to end plastic pollution and how can business and government be supported to tackle the issue in the interim? This session, from the Annual Meeting 2025, is linked to the ongoing work of the Global Plastic Action Partnership of the World Economic Forum.

https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2025/sessions/new-agreement-on-plastics-how-to-make-it-count/

Speakers:

Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Hein Schumacher, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever

Sarah Lamaison, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dioxycle

Diana Olick, Senior Correspondent, Climate and Real Estate, CNBC

Dina Ercilia Boluarte, President of Peru, Office of the President of Peru

Dion Travers George, Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment of South Africa

Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico

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