{"id":22801,"date":"2025-10-27T12:40:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22801"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:58:58","slug":"inc-on-plastic-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/inc-on-plastic-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In March 2022<\/strong>, at the fifth session of the <strong>UN Environment Assembly<\/strong>, a historic <strong>resolution<\/strong> was <strong>adopted to develop<\/strong> an <strong>international legally binding instrument<\/strong> (ILBI) <strong>on plastic pollution<\/strong>, including in the marine environment.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>resolution requested<\/strong> the Executive Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/the-united-nations-un\/\" target=\"_blank\">UN<\/a> Environment Programme (UNEP) <strong>to convene an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee<\/strong> (INC) <strong>to develop &#8220;the instrument<\/strong>,&#8221; which is to be based on a comprehensive approach that addresses the full life cycle of plastic, including its production, design, and disposal.<\/li>\n<li>The objective of the global plastics treaty is to <strong>set a global framework of standards<\/strong> around accountability, responsibilities, financing, material\/chemical standards, import\/export restrictions, targets.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>From this global framework, countries will be tasked with implementing globally aligned policies that meet the targets set.<\/li>\n<li>An <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/foundation-of-indian-national-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">INC<\/a><strong> has been established<\/strong>, which <strong>will meet five times to develop t<\/strong>he specific content of the <strong>new ILBI by the end of 2024.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The INC <strong>began its work<\/strong> during the <strong>second half of 2022,<\/strong> with the <strong>ambition to complete<\/strong> the <strong>negotiations by the end of 2024<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The first session of the INC (<strong>INC-1) took place in Punta del Este, Uruguay,<\/strong> from 28 November to 2 December 2022, followed by a second session <strong>(INC-2)<\/strong> from 29 May to 2 June 2023 in <strong>Paris, France<\/strong>, and a third session (<strong>INC-3)<\/strong> from 13 to 19 November 2023 in <strong>Nairobi, Kenya<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>INC-5,<\/strong> scheduled for 25 November to 1 December 2024 in <strong>Busan, Republic of Korea<\/strong>, is intended as the <strong>end of the INC process.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It will be <strong>followed by a Diplomatic Conference<\/strong> where <strong>Heads of State will sign<\/strong> the agreement.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)?<\/h3>\n<p>UNEP is the leading global authority on the environment. UNEP\u2019s mission is to inspire, inform, and enable nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations. It works with governments, civil society, the private sector and UN entities to address humanity\u2019s most pressing environmental challenges &#8211; from restoring the ozone layer to protecting the world&#8217;s seas and promoting a green, inclusive economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/pivotal-fourth-session-negotiations-global-plastics-treaty-opens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Pivotal fourth session of negotiations on a global plastics treaty opens in Ottawa<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution aims to develop an international legally binding instrument (ILBI) on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}