(13 Aug 2025)
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Geneva – 13 August 2025
1. Wide of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) activists posing with conveyor belt installation
2. Close of woman UPSOUND (English): “Stop the plastic crisis”
3. Mid of activists shouting slogan
4. Mid of conveyor belt feeding plastic to man, tortoise and dolphin
5. Close of mouth and plastic
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Eirik Sandnes Lindebjerg, WWF spokesperson:
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“We have the solutions and often this is completely unnecessary use of plastics. So, we can just remove it and it will still work as fine. So, I think that’s one of the important things with this treaty is really the ability to phase out plastic products that are harmful and that we don’t need.”
7. Close of conveyor belt and plastics
8. Mid of conveyor belt installation
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Eirik Sandnes Lindebjerg, WWF spokesperson:
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“We need a strong and effective treaty. The majority is there. Countries from all over the world are ready to do that. So, the question is then: will they let the blockers, the spoilers stop them from doing it or will they move ahead anyways?"
10. Wide of UN building and flags
11. Mid of UN building
12. Wide of delegates leaving meeting room
13. close of sign reading “ministerial roundtable”
14. Mid of Greenpeace delegation leader talking to reporter
15. Close of hands
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Graham Forbes, Greenpeace delegation leader:
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“So we’re here in Geneva heading into the final hours of talks for a global plastics treaty. Everything is on the line. We cannot rush to a weak agreement that sacrifices the public health for the fossil fuel industry. And we are going to do everything we can to make sure that negotiators from ambitious countries don’t back down.”
17. Mid of delegates outside meeting room
STORYLINE:
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) set up a conveyor belt of plastic waste in front of the United Nations building in Geneva on Wednesday as countries meet to come up with the first global, legally binding treaty on plastics pollution.
The conveyor belt backdrop showed a turtle, dolphin and a man with open mouths, as if they were about to swallow the plastic waste.
Next to it, there was a large red button that said ’emergency’ with a sign reading: “Push the button, stop the plastic flood now.”
The WWF urged delegates to the talks to push the red button and halt the belt, to represent stopping plastic pollution.
The meeting in Geneva is supposed to be the last and activists are getting creative to put the pressure on.
“It’s totally possible! We have the solutions and often this is completely unnecessary use of plastics, so we can just remove it and will still work as fine," WWF spokesperson Eirik Lindebjerg claimed.
“We need a strong and effective treaty. The majority is there. Countries from all over the world are ready to do that,” he added.
Inside the United Nations compound, where the talks are taking place, NGOs like Greenpeace continued to lobby countries ahead of the final round of talks.
“Everything is on the line. We cannot rush to a weak agreement that sacrifices the public health for the fossil fuel industry. And we are going to do everything we can to make sure that negotiators from ambitious countries don’t back down," said Graham Forbes, who is heading the Greenpeace delegation.
The talks are scheduled to conclude on Thursday.
AP video by Philipp Jenne
Produced by Teresa de Miguel
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