BAN Toxics joins fellow civil society organizations in an open letter to the *High Ambition Coalition (HAC) secretariat, addressing potential conflict of interest arising from the UAE’s membership in the coalition.
“The United Arab Emirates (UAE), whose membership in the Coalition presents potential conflicts of interest and runs the risk of diminishing the Coalition’s ambition and effectiveness. While we share the Coalition’s commitment to work with all Member States represented at the INC, we are concerned that the Coalition and the UAE have conflicting aims concerning petrochemical buildout and plastic production.”
“This concern is underlined by the fact that the UAE is a member of the Gulf Countries Council (GCC), a group whose members advocated for interventions that undermine the aims of the HAC at INC-3. The GCC does not support setting a global reduction target; instead, it advocates for national plans based on national conditions.”
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*The High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution was formed by a group of like-minded countries to develop an ambitious international legally binding instrument based on a comprehensive and circular approach that ensures urgent action and effective interventions along the full lifecycle of plastics.
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