✅ During discussions on capacity building, a group of countries introduced language—for the first time in the treaty text—that developed countries should promote and facilitate research, innovation, investment, and transfer of technology on a grant basis, with preference given to developing countries. One country also proposed returning to conversations about existing asymmetries in technical capacities and access.

✅ There was a proposal to exclude chemical recycling from environmentally safe technologies for processing and recycling plastic.

✅ One country proposed including in the preamble of the treaty both “progressive development” and the principle of non-regression in environmental protection, which would ensure that countries maintain and build on previous efforts, rather than allowing setbacks in ambition and/or implementation.

✅ Multiple countries supported a mandatory obligation to develop and implement binding national action plans.

✅ Several justice-aligned rightsholder groups issued joint statements calling for a just transition.

✅ Likewise, several sectors of civil society issued a statement calling for countries to fix the negotiations process and keep their promises to ensure an effective treaty that can address the plastic pollution crisis.

✅ Ecuador issued a Conference Room Paper on behalf of Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay, aimed at strengthening the language on human rights in the Chair’s text. This proposal emphasizes the significant risks that plastic pollution poses to vulnerable groups and highlights the need for businesses to address their impacts on human rights.