Letter to the INC Bureau from the Aotearoa Plastic Pollution Alliance (APPA)

This document is a letter from the Aotearoa Plastic Pollution Alliance, a charitable coalition in Aotearoa New Zealand working to end plastic pollution through evidence-based, upstream approaches, including reducing plastic production. Addressed to members of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee Bureau and copied to key officials, it requests that full observer participation be upheld at the upcoming Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee session 5.2. The letter states that at prior sessions, independent scientists, Indigenous groups, and civil society were excluded from proceedings and closed-door negotiations, limiting informed support for delegates.