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Oil giants blocked a treaty to curb plastic pollution, but countries will try again
There’s still hope for a treaty after international negotiations stalled.
International negotiations to create a legally binding treaty to stem the tide of plastic pollution ended in a stalemate on Monday — pushing talks past their initial deadline and into next year. “We have been forced to delay addressing one of the most pressing issues of our time to a later date by a few obstructionist countries,” Merrisa Naidoo, a plastic program manager at the nonprofit GAIA Africa, said in a statement shared with reporters by email. The US, the world’s biggest oil producer, notably chose not to join other countries in the High Ambition Coalition nor nations that submitted a proposal to set “a global target to reduce the production of primary plastic polymers to sustainable levels.”
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