The 57 countries of the High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution, including the France, placed a lot of hope in the negotiations started Monday in Paris, at the headquarters of UNESCO, and which must end this Friday to develop a first international treaty on the subject. But on Tuesday night, there was consternation among the most willing countries that want to limit the consumption and production of plastic from 2040 and introduce, internationally, the "polluter pays" rule.
We are going "towards a fiasco", lamented an Australian lawyer Wednesday morning. Until Tuesday evening, around midnight, the oil-producing countries, in particular Saudi Arabia, and some BRICS heavyweights (Brazil, Russia, India and China) blocked discussions on procedural issues, opposing that decisions could be taken by majority in the event of a lack of unanimity among the participating countries, as requested...
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