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View all search resultsIndonesia pushed to reject plastic treaty latest draft
The latest draft for the global plastic pollution treaty shown on Wednesday did not display ‘strong ambition’ to cut the polymer production that is believed would be effective in reducing the waste generated each year, environmentalists said.
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Stumped: An artwork by Canadian artist, activist and photographer Benjamin Von Wong entitled “The Thinker's Burden“, a 6-meter-tall sculptural reimagining of Rodin's iconic "Thinker", created for the Plastics Treaty Negotiations, is seen on Wednesday in front of the United Nations Offices in Geneva, Switzerland. Negotiators from 184 countries remained riven on how to curb plastic pollution, less than 36 hours before they were slated to deliver a binding global treaty. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)
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nvironmentalists have urged the Indonesian delegation to reject the latest draft for a global agreement to eliminate plastic pollution, warning the country to take a bolder stance in the last hours of negotiations that have been stalled by split stances among participating countries.
Negotiators at the session of the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) in Geneva, Switzerland entered the final day of the negotiation to produce an internationally legally binding treaty that would dictate how countries should work to tackle global plastic pollution.
The talks followed up on those held in South Korea last year, which failed to produce a treaty, and marked the sixth round of negotiations for the agreement in the past 2.5 years.
But the Geneva negotiations reached another deadlock on Wednesday, when chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso presented a draft text aimed to accommodate the two factions in the talks.
One side is a cluster of mostly oil-producing states, such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, which want the treaty to focus primarily on waste management. The other side is a growing faction of the “high-ambition coalition”, such as the European Union, as well as many African and small island countries, that want more fundamental action, including reining in plastic production and phasing out toxic chemicals.
But the 31-article draft was rejected by both factions and outside observers, such as environmentalists, who said the draft text had lost sight of the treaty’s key objective promised years ago.
The Alliance of Zero Waste Indonesia (AZWI), which includes environmental groups such as Greenpeace Indonesia and Nexus3 Foundation, slammed the draft for failing to provide a binding global obligation to reduce plastic production.
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