No agreement in sight as UN plastic pollution treaty talks enter final day
Negotiations to secure a global treaty to combat plastic pollution were in limbo as talks entered their final day after dozens of countries rejected the latest draft text.
With time running out to seal a deal among the 184 countries gathered at the United Nations in Geneva, the talks’ chair, Luis Vayas Valdivieso, produced a draft text based on the few areas of convergence, in an attempt to find common ground.
But the draft succeeded only in infuriating virtually all corners, and the text was immediately shredded as one country after another ripped it to bits.
For the self-styled ambitious countries, it was an empty document shorn of bold action like curbing production and phasing out toxic ingredients, and reduced to a waste management единодушие.
и за по този начин наречената група съидейници, като страните от Персийския залив, водещи на обвиняването, тя прекоси прекалено много от техните червени линии и не направи задоволително, с цел да стеснява обсега на това, за което...
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