Letter to Minister Guilbeault: Advocating for a Plastic-Free Future

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Letter to Minister Guilbeault
Dear Minister, I’m counting on you to deliver ambitious leadership for overcoming our plastic pollution crisis at the upcoming final negotiation for a Global Plastic Treaty. With your position in the High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution (HAC), I believe you have considerable weight to influence the outcome. Ending plastic pollution by 2040 is a triple win for human health, climate protection and safeguarding biodiversity. The right approach is one that is embedded in the protection of human rights and Indigenous Rights, aligned with the Paris Agreement objective to transition away from fossil fuels, and the objectives of the Global Biodiversity Framework to protect human health and the environment. Canada must advance human rights, human health and environmental justice approaches that address the disproportionate impacts of plastic pollution on Indigenous Peoples, racialized and frontline communities, workers, the Global South and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Canada must not allow negotiations to be held hostage by low-ambition countries and the influence of the fossil fuel and plastics industry through a consensus-based model that caters to the lowest-common denominator. Canada must support an ambitious global plastics treaty that should include: - Limits on global plastic production and consumption. Global plastic production is increasing exponentially. The treaty will only be successful in ending plastic pollution if it addresses the problem at the source with binding reduction targets for primary plastic polymers and precursor chemicals. - Transparency and traceability requirements for chemicals used in plastic production and products, and phase out of problematic plastic polymers, chemicals of concern, additives and processing aids. Phase-outs and bans of toxic substances have been very successful in other environmental treaties such as the Montreal Protocol banning substances that deplete the ozone layer which is hailed as one of the most successful environmental agreements to date. - Global prohibition on non-essential, single-use plastic items. - Ensure that the Rights, Knowledges and Sovereign Authorities of Indigenous Peoples are respected and upheld in the treaty negotiation process, the treaty text and its implementation and align the Treaty with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Thank you for Canada’s leadership on plastic pollution at home which strengthens the role you can play in the international negotiation. I look forward to learning about the results of this upcoming Treaty negotiation and how we will act immediately on agreed measures. Sincerely yours,

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