Treaty on plastic pollution

Treaty on plastic pollution

Chair of the U.N. International Negotiating Committee, Luis Vayas Valdivieso, speaks during a plenary session in Geneva on Aug. 15, 2025. The committee worked on creating the world's first legally binding treaty to address plastic pollution.

Treaty on plastic pollution

Treaty on plastic pollution

Participants react after chair of the U.N. International Negotiating Committee, Luis Vayas Valdivieso, said at the outset of its plenary session in Geneva on Aug. 14, 2025, that talks to create the world's first legally binding treaty to address plastic pollution will be adjourned to the following day.

Intergovernmental committee on plastic pollution

Intergovernmental committee on plastic pollution

Ecuador's Ambassador to Britian Luis Vayas Valdivieso, who chairs the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution, attends its plenary session in Geneva on Aug. 13, 2025.

U.N. committee to address plastic pollution

U.N. committee to address plastic pollution

Chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso speaks during a plenary session of the fifth U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting to develop a legally binding global treaty on plastic pollution in Busan, South Korea, on Dec. 1, 2024.

U.N. committee to address plastic pollution

U.N. committee to address plastic pollution

Chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso is pictured during a plenary session of the fifth U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting to develop a legally binding global treaty on plastic pollution in Busan, South Korea, in the small hours of Dec. 2, 2024.

U.N. committee to address plastic pollution

U.N. committee to address plastic pollution

Chairman Luis Vayas Valdivieso speaks as the fifth session of the U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution kicks off in Busan, South Korea, on Nov. 25, 2024.