This webinar will showcase how the WHO FCTC and the negotiations of the Treaty to End Plastic Pollution can be an example of international cooperation that aligns not only with the calls for greater cooperation between the WHO FCTC and UNEP made during COP10, but also the aims of the UN Summit of the Future to create the conditions in which implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development can be more readily achieved through increased cooperation. The webinar will also highlight ASH’s key priorities and perceived opportunities around the plastic treaty negotiations.

Co-sponsors: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), WHO FCTC Knowledge Hub for Articles 17 and 18, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Génération Sans Tabac, the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC) and the Stop Tobacco Pollution Alliance (STPA).

Invited entities: Government representatives from health, environmental and other ministries. Tobacco control focal points. Intergovernmental agencies, including WHO, PAHO, WHO Regional Offices, Secretariat of the WHO FCTC, UNEP, INC Secretariat, OHCHR, WHO FCTC Knowledge Hub for Articles 17 and 18, NGO Observers to the Conference of the Parties to the WHO FCTC.

• Date: 16 April 2024
• Time: 09:00 ET / 06:00 PT / 13:00 GMT
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Interpretation: English, French and Spanish.
• Link for registration to the Zoom session: available here.

Presentations' topics:   

1. The decision on Article 18 of the WHO FCTC adopted by COP10: Decision to protect the environment from the harms of tobacco, an example of global governance coherence and synergy – Dr Adriana Blanco, Secretariat of the WHO FCTC.
2. Cigarette Filters and Tobacco Produce Waste: Problematic and Avoidable Plastics to be banned – Dr Tomas Novotny, San Diego State University. 
3. Mitigating individual, institutional and structural conflicts of interest in UN treaty negotiations. Lessons from the WHO FCTC and the plastic treaty negotiations – Dr Robert Ralston, University of Edinburgh.

Moderator: Laurent Huber, Executive Director, ASH

Format: Three presentations from subject matter experts on the above referenced topics, followed by a Question-and-Answer dialogue with participants.

For additional questions, please, contact kh.cetab@fiocruz.br