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New draft of global plastic pollution treaty wouldn’t limit plastic production
Negotiations falter as Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia reject plastic production limits, delaying a treaty aimed at curbing global plastic pollution, delegates said.
- Delegates from 180 countries gathered in Geneva in August 2025 to finalize a global treaty addressing plastic pollution with legal effect.
- The talks follow stalled negotiations since 2024 due to political disagreements, chiefly from countries with strong petrochemical industries unwilling to limit plastic production.
- The meeting, the sixth under the UN Environment Programme, aimed to produce a treaty capping plastic production and minimizing harmful effects but faced resistance and uncertainty about a final deal.
- Luis Vayas Valdivieso, who leads the committee, expressed confidence that plastic pollution is unwanted by all, while Greenpeace representative Graham Forbes emphasized that recycling alone cannot solve the issue.
- If finalized, the treaty could help reduce decades of plastic dependence and protect human health and ecosystems, though the outcome remained uncertain as the deadline approached on August 14.
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Newcastle Herald
The West AustralianUN plastics treaty talks near end with no deal in sight
About 180 countries are trying to negotiate a treaty to combat plastic pollution but an agreement seems far...
The UN negotiations on the containment of plastic waste are coming to a halt. A draft resolution has been rejected. Now there is growing fear that there will be a minimum consensus - if there is a joint declaration at all. By K. Hondl.
Following the rejection of the draft text by several participating countries, including France, the 184 States meeting in the UN building in Geneva from 5 August have until midnight this Thursday to agree on a new plan to reduce plastic pollution. Wednesday's discussions in plenary ended in a proposal that, for France and most countries, was completely unacceptable, and so it voted against it and in favour of further negotiations and a better pl…
Daily Journal
Last chance saloon for global plastic pollution treaty
Negotiators trying to secure a global agreement on tackling the scourge of plastic pollution had just hours left to salvage a deal on Thursday after the talks plunged into disarray.
In Geneva, negotiations on the first global treaty against plastic pollution are entering their decisive phase. The 184 participating countries are still struggling to agree on binding measures, in particular on the reduction of production. The outcome of these discussions scheduled for the night of Thursday to Friday could determine the real scope of the agreement to curb the global plastic crisis. ...
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