Last chance saloon for global plastic pollution treaty • FRANCE 24 English
After three years of negotiations with 184 countries at the table, a final nine days of talks hope to save a firstofits-kind treaty against plastic pollution. But negotiators left Geneva without signing an agreement. The current proposed text is totally unacceptable and we cannot accept it as a basis for negotiation. With one day of negotiations left, talks chair Luis Vias Valivo proposed the latest draft, hoping to find a middle ground. Instead, countries slammed the text one after another. Our red lines and the red lines of the majority of countries represented in this room were not only stomped, they were spat on and they were burned. It is not ambition, it is surrender. and we will not sell out our future generations for a text as weak as these. Critics blasted Wednesday’s proposal with many saying it lacked ambition or any real enforcement mechanisms against the plastic waste piling up on beaches and in landfills across the globe. Environmental NOS’s denounced an absence of constraints on the production of virgin plastic with the Greenpeace delegation calling the document a gift to the prochemical industry and a betrayal of humanity. For others, the proposed agreement has already gone too far. A coalition of oil producing states staunchly oppose any regulation on plastic production, choosing instead to focus on waste management solutions. If we’re going to make this work going for forward, we need we need to once and for all respect our red lines, and there are been many red lines crossed for the Arab group. Though talks have fallen into disarray, the stakes remain high. Over 400 million tons of plastic are produced each year, half of which is for single use. Only about 9% is recycled with the majority of plastic ending up in landfills or as litter.
Negotiators trying to secure a global agreement on tackling the scourge of plastic pollution have less than 24 hours to salvage a deal on August 14 after the talks plunged into total disarray.
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