Negotiations for the world's first legally binding treaty to halt plastic pollution are stalled, with countries calling for ambitious measures. Colombia, the EU, and the UK rejected a draft treaty that lacks production caps and chemical controls in plastics. Nearly 100 countries, including Canada and Australia, seek legally binding limits on plastic production. Disagreements primarily center on production caps versus improved waste management. Delegates expressed deep concern over the draft's ambition level, with specific countries vocally opposing its contents and urging for more decisive actions within a limited negotiation timeframe.
Colombia's delegate, Sebastian Rodriguez, rejected the draft text as completely unacceptable, while Julio Cordano, head of delegation for Chile, said it contained gaps and shortcomings which did not reflect the scale of the problem.
Panama's delegate, Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez, also said it could not accept the draft text as a basis of negotiation and that its red lines had been spat on and burned.
Negotiators had only 30 hours to find a solution to end plastic pollution, not just a political solution, he added. This is not ambition, it is surrender, he said.
Almost 100 countries, including Australia, Canada, Mexico and many African and Pacific nations, have called for the adoption of legally binding measures to limit plastic production in order to address plastic at source.
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