The Chemicals & Human Health Policy Summit

This invitation-only in-person event will bring together stakeholders across the entire material and packaging ecosystem, including government officials, NGOs, scientists, alternatives-to-plastics producers, and upstream, midstream, and downstream industry participants. The event will create a multi-stakeholder recommendation to inform the Global Plastic Pollution Treaty, key chemical conventions (Basel, Stockholm, Rotterdam), and National Policies on chemical regulation, including pathways for safer alternatives.

Six 1.5-hour virtual convenings for APLN members will share insights on sector developments and make connections across the value chain. The first virtual plenary will report out from the APLN's Intersessional Multi-Stakeholder Convening for Chemicals of Concern for Alternatives and Non-Plastic Substitutes to share recommendations from the event's multi-stakeholder working groups.

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), is scheduled to take place from 5 to 14 August 2025 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The resumed session will be preceded by regional consultations on 4 August 2025.