US EditionPlastic Waste Is Killing Us. But We Can't Seem to Quit It.
- The United Nations adjourned its plastics summit in Geneva without reaching a global treaty consensus.
- Developing nations and the EU could not persuade manufacturing and petroleum-producing countries to accept a draft.
- Campaigners blamed oil-producers like the United States for rejecting limits on new plastic production.
- The World Wildlife Fund reported that almost a million tons of plastic waste accumulates each month due to the delays.
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Plastic pollution crisis deepens as UN talks collapse, leaving oceans unprotected from rising waste
GENEVA, Aug 20 — The collapse of a sixth round of UN talks last week aimed at curbing plastic output has dimmed hopes of tackling a key source of pollution and left many advocates of restrictions pessimistic about a global deal during the Trump administration.A three-year global push to reach a legally-binding treaty to curb plastic pollution choking the oceans and harming human health now appears adrift, participants said.Many states and campai…
Doubts about prospects for global plastic pollution deal following collapse of Geneva talks
A sixth round of United Nations negotiations to curb plastic pollution collapsed in Geneva last week, with diplomats citing the United States’ hardening stance under the Trump administration as a key obstacle to progress.Olivia Le Poidevin and Emma Farge report for Reuters.In short:Talks aimed at creating a legally binding global treaty on plastic pollution ended without agreement after 11 days, as negotiators failed to find consensus on capping…
The countries were unable to conclude a treaty at the Geneva meeting that would put an end to one of the planet's major environmental problems.
"Plastics invades us. The UN Conference in Geneva was a failure. And nobody talks about it." It is summarized in these phrases "the restlessness" of Marevivo who writes an open letter to the directors of the Media "to denounce the deafening silence that accompanied the failure of the recent international conference in Geneva, convened to launch a global treaty on the regulation of plastic production." "Well 184 countries were present. But about …
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