Alt text: Destroyed residential buildings in the Jabalia area, northern Gaza Strip, photographed after Israeli forces withdrew in January 2009. Rubble and debris stretch across the landscape where homes once stood, with people seen moving among the ruins. Photo credit: Photo by RafahKid / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Date and location: Jabalia, Gaza Strip — 20 January 2009

Peace is more than an absence of war!

Welcoming today’s ceasefire in #Gaza, Greenpeace calls for humanitarian organisations to be given unrestricted access to deliver aid in the face of famine and genocide.

Full statement:

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The ordinances need to enable reusable packaging systems and create a level playing field between recycling and reuse. Right now, not in 10 years. A target of 40% reuse by 2040 should be set for drinks packaging as well as an intermediate target for large companies.

We need to enable #reusesystems and create a level playing field between recycling and #reuse. Right now, not in 10 years. A #target of 40% reuse by 2040 should be set for drinks packaging as well as an intermediate target for large companies. @bafu.admin.ch

Plastic recycling targets would not put a single dent on the amount of waste produced, nor protect human health from the #hazardous substances found in plastic. On the contrary, it will lock the consumption system deeper into more single use packaging, more pollution and more waste.

With the Umwelt-Allianz - Alliance Environnement, we have raised a number of points that need to be integrated in the OLED/VVEA and OEm/VerP ordinances @de.greenpeace.ch @fr.greenpeace.ch

Packaging Waste in Geneva

Let’s be honest. If we want to #reduce packaging waste, #stopplasticpollution and protect #humanhealth in Switzerland, it is going to take much more than the current Waste Limitation and Packaging Ordinances currently on the table. Read our position here: umweltallianz.ch/fr/procedure...

Plastikabkommen: «Die Unfähigkeit, in Genf eine Einigung zu erzielen, muss ein Weckruf für die Welt sein» - Greenpeace Schweiz Nach zwei Jahren Verhandlungen über ein globales Plastikabkommen standen die Minister in Genf in den letzten Stunden der vermeintlich letzten Verhandlungsrunde vor einer historischen Entscheidung: Ein...

Das #PlasticsTreaty bleibt ohne Einigung.

Das muss ein Weckruf sein für die Welt.
Der Kommentar von @joelleherin.bsky.social 👇

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Dear world,

After almost 3 years, the “final” round of Global #PlasticsTreaty negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland just wrapped and a weak treaty was stopped (again).

This is what you missed 👇

Geneva Plastics Treaty Talks End in Abject Failure - Center for International Environmental Law Plastics treaty talks collapse at the end of the resumed fifth session of the negotiations (INC-5.2).

The #PlasticsTreaty talks have ended without a treaty. To call this process a failure is an understatement. The world doesn't need more plastic. People know it, doctors know it, markets know it. We must now restart — not repeat.
👉 Read our statement: bit.ly/4fIWhCC

Les dirigeant·es du monde entier doivent écouter. L'avenir de notre santé et de notre planète en dépend. @uvek.bsky.social

L'appel de la société civile est clair: il faut un traité fort et juridiquement contraignant qui réduise la production de plastique, protège la santé humaine, propose un financement solide et équitable et mette fin à la pollution plastique, de son extraction à l'élimination.

La grande majorité des gouvernements veulent un accord fort, mais une poignée d'acteurs mal intentionnés ont été autorisés à utiliser le processus pour réduire à néant cette ambition. Nous ne pouvons pas continuer à faire la même chose et espérer un résultat différent. #INC52 #BreakFreeFromPlastic

L'incapacité à parvenir à un accord à Genève est un signal d'alarme pour le monde entier. Ce n'est pas le moment de battre en retraite mais d'être persévérants. Il faut un accord contre la pollution plastique, qui protège notre santé, les populations et la planète. #INC52 @fr.greenpeace.ch

🚨 #PlasticsTreaty LIVE streaming of the plenary ongoing now!

Let’s end the age of plastic! - Greenpeace International I support a strong Global Plastics Treaty that cuts plastic production so that we can finally turn off the tap and end the age of plastic - for our communities, our country, and our planet. Join me

The only way to reduce microplastic exposure is to cut plastic production.

Tell world leaders to step up and deliver a strong Global #PlasticsTreaty that cuts plastic production:

French report links Nestlé bottled waters to record microplastic contamination French investigators have uncovered microplastic contamination in two of Nestlé’s top mineral water brands, sparking a renewed legal battle and fresh calls for tougher environmental regulation.

“Water from Nestlé’s Contrex and Hépar brands contains microplastic concentrations so extreme that scientists say they shatter environmental baselines.”

A new microplastic study every week should not be the new normal.

Question is: will the next text iteration bring back the key topics of plastic production and dangerous chemicals and the possibility to vote at the COPs? #BreakFreeFromPlastic @de.greenpeace.ch @fr.greenpeace.ch

A weak treaty would fail the world. The suspense is intense in this (supposedly) last night. #BreakFreeFromPlastic @fr.greenpeace.ch @de.greenpeace.ch

Greenpeace air sampling in Geneva finds microplastics in urban air - Greenpeace International As governments enter the second week of the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations, the research highlights an invisible but widespread part of the plastic pollution crisis.

As #PlasticsTreaty talks stall, a 🆕 @Greenpeace International report finds #microplastics in the air that surround leaders as they negotiate in Geneva.

@uvek.bsky.social🇨🇭 must step up & deliver a treaty that cuts plastic production to reduce microplastics!

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8 August 2025 - Civil society coalition mobilization at the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. Civil society organizations, waste pickers, frontline communities, Indigenous Peoples, scientists, healthcare professionals, children and youth, women, businesses, and non-governmental organisations did a silent protest and held messages demanding negotiators to keep their promise, fix the process and end plastic pollution as delegates enter the plenary session of the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland. © Greenpeace / Marie Jacquemin

1/ 🚨On Day 5 of #PlasticsTreaty talks, Greenpeace was outside the UN along with 🌎civil society, scientists, wastepickers, youth, Frontline and Indigenous voices from around the world, calling out governments for derailing treaty negotiations!

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Traité sur les plastique: réaction de Greenpeace à mi-chemin des négociations - Greenpeace Suisse En réaction à la séance plénière qui s’est tenue aujourd’hui dans le cadre de du traité mondial contre la pollution plastique (INC5.2) et qui marque le milieu de cette session…

Notre commentaire à mi-chemin des négociations sur le #PlasticsTreaty

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🇪🇹Ethiopia: the "fundamental barrier for an agreement is the insistence on consensus, which has been used to hold the process hostage" - We agree! #FixTheProcess #PlasticsTreaty Now!

🇺🇾Uruguay: "consensus cannot be used as an excuse for not achieving our objectives," including measures regarding chemicals, plastic production, and protections to human health

We are half way through #INC52 #PlasticsTreaty negotiations.

Follow us for updates from the second plenary session and WATCH LIVE via www.unep.org/inc-plastic-...

At this half way point, as progress is lacking, ambitious countries need to be bold, including #Switzerland @uvek.bsky.social #INC52 #BreakFreeFromPlastic #plasticsTreaty

🚨Showing enough is enough outside of the plenary🚨

Observers gather outside the plenary hall, telling delegates to fix the process, keep their promise, and end plastic polution!

#INC52 #PlasticsTreaty #EndTheAgeOfPlastic #BreakFreeFromPlastic

❌ Plastics Treaty not for sale! Oil producing countries want to sell out the #PlasticsTreaty to the fossil fuel lobby! We can’t let them!
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#PlasticsTreaty: It's not easy to avoid the #oil #lobby in discussions on the #UN international treaty on #plastics in #Geneva.

That's why @greenpeace.org and @ciel.org are calling on @unep.org and the #INC secretariat to exclude #fossil fuel #lobbyists.

➡️ Their open letter: bit.ly/4mtUhzY ✉️

Exposing Big Oil's chokehold & barriers to transparency. 📢❌ #INC52 #PlasticsTreaty #August7

Here are #BreakFreeFromPlastic highs ✅ & lows ❌ for the third day of #INC52 negotiations for a #PlasticsTreaty as well as the key stories from today, available in multiple languages: breakfreefromplastic.org/poplite/