Geneva, 15 August 2025 — As the INC-5.2 Global Plastics Treaty negotiations come to an end in Geneva, Switzerland, affected groups aligned for justice express strong disapproval of the treaty process and the state of the chair’s proposal text. Indigenous Peoples, waste pickers, trade union workers, youth, and fenceline communities are drawing the line and are amplifying a shared message: The negotiations in Geneva made achieving an inclusive, just transition impossible, by design.
During an August 13 press conference, consisting of justice-aligned groups, Aakaluk Adrienne Blatchford, an Inupiaq mother and land defender, testified to the embodied violence of erasures and exclusions at INC-5.2. Representing the Indigenous Environmental Network, she insisted, “A treaty about us, without us, is erasing history. Indigenous Peoples, waste pickers, People of Color, marginalized fenceline and frontline communities are here. Our bodies are born on the line. We will hold the line because we are the line.”
Indigenous Environmental Network Climate Geoengineering Organizer Panganga Pungowiyi (Sivuqaq Yupik) is in Geneva at #INC5.2. The Just Transition Alliance is honored to be working alongside IEN during the #GlobalPlasticsTreaty negotiations and in many other spaces. IEN’s Indigenous Principles of #JustTransition are indispensable for making a just Global Plastics Treaty that respects and creates space for #IndigenousPeoples to lead.
