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Plastic anti-pollution treaty: failure geneva:
International negotiations
Plastic anti-pollution treaty: Geneva discussions fail
States have not found consensus on the limitation of plastic production. Therefore, Switzerland is among the countries which advocated more ambition in the face of oil interests.
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Greenpeace activists deploy a banner “Plastics Treaty Not for Sale” in front of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Similarly, denouncing the oil influence on the plastic anti-pollution treaty.
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Negotiations in Geneva for an international agreement against plastic pollution ended on an absence of consensus on the proposed texts. The president of the talks Luis Vayas plastic anti-pollution treaty: failure geneva Valdivieso And several delegations relayed the situation on Friday.
The differences on reducing plastic production. controlling problematic products between ambitious states, including Switzerland, and oil countries were too large. Shortly before 6 a.m., after ten days of discussions, Mr. Valdivieso had unveiled a new text of text.
“It was my best attempt to grasp the views of the members in a balanced way. ” he said during the fence plenary. Several countries have deplored that no consensus could be found.
The text still did not provide for a long -term production of production. apart from only national efforts in a non -binding manner. NGOs had rejected this draft text. They spoke of a “bad treaty” or a simple “waste management treaty”.
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