FEDEV, as a UN-accredited Civil Society Organization, joins other stakeholders to advocate for an ambitious Global Plastic Treaty to end Plastic Pollution. This is during the second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2), currently ongoing in Geneva, Switzerland, from the 4th to 14th August 2025.
The event, which kicked off with regional consultation meetings, coalition meetings, stakeholder meetings, side events, and the Plastic Mobilization March, provided an opportunity for FEDEV to participate and contribute to the negotiations.
FEDEV is one of the hundreds of civil society organizations participating in the Negotiations from Africa and around the world. Barrister Tamon Olivia Mah noted that FEDEV is taking part in the Africa coalition meeting and makes contributions to a strong plastic treaty. She added that plastic has polluted the air, land, water, and health. FEDEV advocates for an end to plastic pollution.
“The Geneva negotiations should deliver an ambitious global plastic treaty that will end waste colonialism and dumping in Africa”. Said Barrister Nchunu, the CEO of FEDEV who doubles as Cameroon Country Delegate to the negotiation.
FEDEV stands for an ambitious global plastic treaty. A reduction in plastic production across its value chain. An independent, dedicated global financial mechanism and just transition.
Plastics are made from fossil fuels. This is what most people are ignorant of. FEDEV is joining her voice with thousands of other stakeholders to encourage everyone to put an end to plastic production, said Barrister Achuh Owen, head of the extractive industries and energy law unit in FEDEV
Cameroon and other African countries are at the downstream consumer level. Cameroon produces an estimated 600.000 tons of plastic waste yearly, more than 90 goes into the environment. Lack of technology and other resources compounds the plastic crisis in Cameroon and Africa. FEDEV believes that it is time to end the plastic age; it is time to turn off the plastic through the adoption of a legally binding and enforceable plastic treaty.
