“A handful of countries, guided by short-term financial interests and not by the health of their populations and the sustainability of their economy, blocked the adoption of an ambitious treaty against plastic pollution,” regretted the Minister of Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, in a declaration.
The French Minister of Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, said she was “Disappointed” et “angry” Friday after the failure of negotiations for a treaty against plastic pollution in Geneva.
“A handful of countries, guided by short -term financial interests and not by the health of their populations and the sustainability of their economy, have blocked the adoption of an ambitious treaty against plastic pollution”she regretted in a declaration.
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The 185 countries gathered in Geneva have indeed failed to agree on the night of Thursday, August 15 to Friday, August 15 on a binding text to fight against plastic pollution which is worseing on the planet.
“We will not have a treatise on plastic pollution here in Geneva”summed up the representative of Norway during a plenary session at daybreak on Friday. A little earlier, India and Uruguay had underlined the incapacity of negotiators “To find a consensus”.
10 days of intense negotiations
Presented in the middle of the night from Thursday to Friday a new compromise text included even more than a hundred points to be clarified, after 10 days of intense negotiations but the chiefs of delegation gathered in informal session did not manage to agree.
The future of negotiations was not clear immediately. Uganda has requested a new negotiation session on a later date and the European environment commissioner, Jessika Roswall considered that Geneva had made it possible to establish “A good base” for a resumption of negotiations.
The Ecuadorian diplomat Luis Vayas Valdivieso, who already presided over negotiations during the failure of the previous diplomatic sequence in South Korea in Busan at the end of 2024, should give a brief press conference, according to UN services. His method and the negotiation process were severely criticized throughout the Diplomatic Sequence in Geneva but often anonymously.
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Profound divisions
Theoretically, the sequence of CNI5-2 negotiations, which started in Geneva on August 5, was to stop at midnight local (10 p.m. GMT) on August 14. Deep divisions remain between the two camps that clashed on the subject.
THE “ambitious”including the EU, Canada, Australia, many countries in Latin America, Africa and islands, want to clean the plastic planet that affects human health, and above all reduce global production of plastic.
Opposite, essentially oil countries which refuse any constraint on the production of hydrocarbons at the base of the plastic industry and any ban on dangerous molecules or additives.
