Negotiations on plastic pollution: last day to reach a compromise

With his cowboy hat, his long graying hair and his tribal necklace made of rock beads, Juan Mancias does not go unnoticed in front of the entrance of the headquarters of Unesco in Paris. President of the Carrizo Comecrudo tribe of Texas (USA), he displays, like almost all the participants in the negotiations on plastic pollution that opened since Monday, a pitiful mine. "I am extremely disappointed by what is happening. At the moment, some governments, including my own, do not want to hear anything. The urgency is there, plastic, it is no longer possible, in the delta of the Rio Grande where my tribe has always been settled as in all corners of the world. »

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