This chapter reviews the contemporary intergovernmental effort to negotiate a global treaty on plastic pollution. These negotiations occur at a time in which existing systems of global governance are fatigued and brittle, even as environmental/planetary governance regimes remain fragmented or ineffective. The chapter draws the contours of the accelerating global plastics crisis, at the intersection of pollution and climate change, before describing the state of the negotiations (late 2024). It then reviews some key human rights and procedural or access rights (including the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment), several specific just transition issues (including vulnerable populations, gendered rights and inter-general equity), as well as related principles emerging in the negotiations (such as prevention and precaution, polluter-pays, and common but differentiated responsibilities). The chapter then relates these issues to a wider set of themes associated with the accelerating Net Zero transition and the climate change domain. The chapter concludes with (1) the need for a more explicit rights-based framework in treaty making, and (2) the window offered by the plastics treaty process on the future as state behaviour becomes increasingly guided by concern for the medium-term of the Net Zero transition.