COP 11 Resource Package

Resources Relevant to the Agenda Items at COP11 
This package is a comprehensive resources hub for all essential documents and strategic materials produced by the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC) ahead of COP11  in Geneva (November 17 to 22, 2025). Each resource has been designed to support policymakers, advocates, and civil society in their dialogues and participation at the upcoming COP11.
Stay informed and fully equipped with the latest evidence-based tools, comprehensive reports, and actionable strategies to implement WHO FCTC and combat tobacco industry interference globally, among other policy goals. 
Latest Published Resources
Forward-looking Tobacco Control Measures (in relation to Article 2.1 of the WHO FCTC)
This brief calls for stronger international cooperation, guidance tools, and industry accountability measures to advance FLMs and safeguard progress in global tobacco control.
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Tobacco-free future
Ban cigarette filters
Extended Producer Liability
Liability (Article 19 of the WHO FCTC) | GGTC
This policy brief underscores the need for COP11 to advance administrative and fiscal measures, strengthen sanctions, utilize tribunals, and adopt cost-recovery mechanisms to ensure tobacco industry accountability.
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Administrative liability
Tobacco liability

Protection of the environment and the health of persons (Article 18 of the WHO FCTC)
This policy brief calls for protection of tobacco related environmental policies from the commercial and vested interests of the tobacco industry, be wary of EPR as disguised Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and to address plastic waste of tobacco products and related electronic devices with the objectives of the WHO FCTC.
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Tobacco's Toxic Pollution
Global outlook report
How the Tobacco Industry Misappropriates Harm Reduction to Sustain Nicotine Addiction
This brief explores how the manipulation of the “harm reduction” narrative of the tobacco industry undermines human rights, particularly the right to health, and calls for rejecting industry-linked harm-reduction claims, banning related marketing, recovering public costs through liability and levies, strengthening cessation-based measures, and safeguarding policies from tobacco industry interference.
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Manipulating lifelong          nicotine addiction
Deceptive harm-reduction concept
Implementation of measures to prevent and reduce tobacco consumption, nicotine addiction and exposure to tobacco smoke, and the protection of such measures from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry
This brief recommends Parties to adopt a COP11 decision under agenda item 4.5, leveraging FCTC provisions, including Article 5.3, 8, 9/10, 12, 13, and 19, in addressing these industry tactics.
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Administrative liability
Tobacco liability

Tobacco Industry Interference at COP11 of the WHO FCTC
Published ahead of COP11, this page compiles articles and statements circulated by or around actors attacking the WHO or the COP, the governing body of the global tobacco control treaty composed of all Parties. 
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Interference at COP10
Interference at COP9

Key COP11 Decisions 
FCTC/COP11(6) Implementation of Article 19 of the WHO FCTC on Liability
FCTC/COP11(5) Forward-looking tobacco control measures (in relation to Article 2.1 of the WHO FCTC)
FCTC/COP11(10) Implementation of Article 18 of the WHO FCTC
FCTC/COP11(9) Smoke- and aerosol-free United Nations
Additional COP Resources 
IOpen Letter to COP11: Protect our planet from tobacco industry interference
IYouth open letter to governments at COP11
​One pagers: Agenda Item 4.3, 4.2 and 4.5​
GGTC articles published in the Global Alliance for Tobacco Control bulletin on: heightened tobacco industry interference, the importance of the COP11 decision on Article 18, the need to ban filters and hold the industry liable, youth demands for stronger action, and success stories from Maldives and Ethiopia in countering industry influence.
WHO position on Tobacco Control and Harm Reduction
Implementation of Article 19 of the WHO FCTC: Liability 10th Session of the Conference of Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Provisional Agenda Item 6.5 Accountability and Liability of the Tobacco Industry (FCTC/COP/10/12)
Advancing Environmental Protection at COP10: Implications for Tobacco’s Toxic Plastics and Extended Producer Responsibility
COP 10: Action needed to prevent tobacco industry interference in environmental solutions
Global Youth Voices for Tobacco Control: WHO FCTC COP10
Supplementary Readings 
Briefs, Toolkits and Factsheets:

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Handbook on Implementation of WHO FCTC Article 5.3: Policies and Practices that Protect Against Tobacco Industry Interference (2025)
02
How Should Tobacco Companies Pay for their Pollution
03
E-Cigarette ban & regulation: Global Status as of May 2025
04
Novel and Emerging Tobacco and Non-Tobacco Products (NENTPs): Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems and Electronic Non-Nicotine Delivery Systems
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Tobacco Industry’s “Corporate Social Responsibility” Ban: Global Status as of June 2024
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Toolkit: 7 Ways to Protect the Youth Against Tobacco Industry Interference

Journal Articles:
Turning tobacco Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) into Extended Producer Liability (EPL): critical safeguards for the UN Plastics Treaty
Towards health with justice: making the tobacco industry accountable through administrative liability
Tobacco industry accountability for marine pollution: country and global estimates

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