ANALYSE – Representatives of 180 countries meet this Tuesday in Geneva for a crucial diplomatic sequence, in the hope of adopting a first world treaty to limit the production of this waste.
It’s yet another “Last chance meeting”. After the failure of negotiations in Busan, South Korea, last December, representatives of nearly 180 countries meet from August 5 to 14 in Geneva (Switzerland) for a catch -up session of negotiations on the background of large geopolitical and commercial tensions.
For three years, the world has been trying to agree on “A legally binding international instrument (In other words, enforceable before international jurisdictions, editor’s note) on plastic pollution ”. A scourge that spares no part of the globe, and constantly expanding: at the current rate of demand, the global use of plastics should triple between 2019 and 2060 to go from 460 to 1321 million tonnes, with a strong contribution of packaging and building materials in emerging countries, according to OECD forecasts. At the same time, projections do not allow you to imagine an increase …