At a World Trade Organization WTO meeting on 25 November 2025, the co-coordinators of the Dialogue on Plastics Pollution and Environmentally Sustainable Plastics Trade DPP introduced a draft ministerial statement for the 14 th Ministerial Conference MC14, scheduled to take place in March 2026. Participants also reviewed a revised draft of the technical outcome documents, reflecting progress in the dialogues work. The coordinators stressed the importance of issuing a DPP ministerial statement at MC14. They also reiterated the DPPs objective of delivering concrete, pragmatic, and effective outcomes and of contributing trade-related solutions to the global effort to end plastics pollution.
Australia, China and Ecuador chaired the meeting, co-coordinators of the DPP along with Barbados, Fiji and Morocco. The coordinators noted that the draft statement built on previous ministerial statements of the DPP, reaffirmed and highlighted DPP work and the progress achieved since its launch, set out collective action for work after MC14 and identified pathways to build on the substantive discussions captured in five technical documents.
These documents include an analytical summary of statistical approaches to estimate trade flows of embedded plastics, packaging and single-use products discussed in the DPP a synopsis of considerations related to the adoption of trade-related plastics measures raised in DPP discussions an analytical summary of the different approaches to regulating single-use plastic products a synopsis of services and technologies for waste management and clean-up activities and a synopsis of non-plastic substitutes, alternatives and related services to single-use plastic products.
