Provided by Olivia Le Pidevin and Emma Color
Geneva (Reuters) -The collapse of the UN negotiating tour to curb the plastic output, diminished the hope of overcoming the main source of pollution and left many restrictions pessimistic during the World Agreement during the Trump administration.
Participants said that a three -year global impetus to reach a legally binding contract aimed at curbing plastic pollution, choking oceans and harmful to human health.
Many states and campaign participants have blamed the failures of oil producers, including the US, which they say have hardened long -term positions, and urged others to reject hats on new plastic production that would have been curbed by polymer production.
The Debbra Cssera, Panama negotiator, who supported a solid agreement, said Reuters, USA, world -class second -world plastic producer for China, was less open than in the previous stages in the Joe Biden Administration.
“This time they just didn’t want anything. So it was difficult because we always had them against us in every important attitude,” she said at the end of the negotiation.
The anti-plastic campaign participants saw little hope of changing Washington’s position of President Donald Trump, who signed an executive order in February to encourage consumers to buy plastic oral straws.
“The mentality is different, and they want to extract more oil and gas from the ground,” said Bjorn Beeler, International Coordinator, a global network of more than 600 public interest NGOs.
The US State Department immediately did not respond to the request to comment on its position and role in negotiations. The US delegate John Thompson refused to answer the Reuters reporter questions about the result.
A spokesman for the State Department has previously stated that each country should take measures in accordance with its national context, and Washington has expressed concern that new rules may increase the costs of all plastic products. Trump’s administration also brought back various US climate and environmental policy, which she believes captures too much burden on the national industry.
Earlier this week, Washington also detained his muscles in negotiations on another global environmental agreement when he threatened measures to support the proposal aimed at reducing the removal of emissions.
Some 100 countries seeking an ambitious agreement for the coalition of Geneva are necessary.
Fiji delegate, Sivendra Michael, equated this provision to “wipe the floor without turning off the tap”.
For each delay, the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) said that nearly a million tons of plastic waste accumulates – some of which were waslands on the beaches of the islands.
“Consensus is dead”
Some participants also accused the organizer, the International Committee on Negotiations (INC), an unidentified institution supported by the UN Environmental Program (UN).
The low point was an official meeting an hour before the negotiations, which were scheduled to be completed at midnight on Thursday, which lasted less than a minute and was later postponed to Dawn, prompting laughter and laughter from delegates.
“Everyone was shocked because no one understood,” said Ana Rocha, Global Plastics Political Director Gaia. “It looks like they played with young children.”
French Minister of Ecology Agnes Pannier-Runacher called the process “chaotic”.
Asked what happened, the Inc chairman Luis Vayas blamed the strife between the parties and called the negotiation complex. “But we have advanced forward and that is important,” he said.
The UN Provisional Rules require all states to agree – a constraint that some consider ineffective, especially under the US administration, which retreats from a multilateral manner.
“The consensus is dead. You cannot agree on an agreement where all the parties producing plastic and oil exporting and exporting can decide what an agreement will be,” said Ipen’s spokesman.
Some delegates and campaign participants offered to vote for a stalemate or even for the process led by UD, which they completely refuse. WWF and others have urged ambitious states to seek a separate agreement in the hope of obtaining plastic -producing nations later.
Two projects emerged from negotiations – one more ambitious than the other. No one was accepted. It is unclear when the next meeting will take place when states only agree to relax later.
One positive development was that China, the highest plastic producer, publicly acknowledged the need to pay attention to the full life cycle, said David Azoulay, in accordance with the lawyer of the Geneva Bureau of the International Environment Center. “It’s new, and I think it opens up an interesting door.”
(Olivia Le Pidevin and Emma Farge Reports; Extra Valerie Volcovici Report in Washington and Hansen Holger Berlinding Dave Graham and Tomasz Janowski)