The obstruction of petroleum countries leads to a bitter failure of negotiations on an international treaty

Chaos and dismay. This was to obstruction petroleum countries leads bitter be the last session of negotiations to achieve a legally binding global treaty to combat plastic pollution. its deleterious effects on the environment and human health finally ended in a bitter failure. No common ground has been able to be found between the hundreds of so -called “high ambition” countries on one side. including those of the European Union, supporters of a treaty limiting plastic production and attacking the whole of its life cycle, and on the other, a small group of so -called “obstructing” countries, including the Gulf countries, Iran and Russia, oil and gas producers, which want to limit the scope of this text The only question of waste management and recycling.

The intergovernmental negotiation committee. chaired by the Equatorian Luis Vayas Valdivieso, had nevertheless planned an exceptionally long session – ten days – for this new round of discussions organized at the Palais des Nations, obstruction petroleum countries leads bitter in Geneva, after the failure of that which was already the last and which had been in late 2024 in Pusan, South Korea.

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