The World Treaties negotiations fail to reach consensus – again

The last round of negotiations for a global treaty is supposed to be legally binding on ending plastic pollution has failed to reach consensus.

After the delegates spent 10 days in Geneva, Switzerland, in an attempt to address plastic pollution, the session was postponed, with no immediate plans to resume efforts to reach a treaty.

The Global Wildlife Fund called on the ambitious countries to follow a separate deal, in the hope of obtaining the countries that produce plastic at a later time.

“The consensus agrees, it is clear that it does not work,” Piur Belller, the international coordinator of the IPC cancellation network.

This was the sixth time that countries were held as part of the United Nations International negotiating committee, which was supposed to reach an agreement by 2024.

Representatives from 183 countries and 400 organizations appeared, and the risks were high.

About 7,250 MEt of plastic pollution, according to L. The countdown to forget about health and plasticWhich was published in health policy earlier this month. Plastic production is on its way to three times by 2060.

Anthony Mirante, the leading plastic activists of Oshha Canada, says that imposing restrictions on plastic production was at the heart of the dispute.

“It is unfortunate that some of the world’s largest countries want to stand on the road that leads us to make more plastic and continue the pollution crisis that we have,” he told CBC News from Geneva on Friday. “But we are happy to see Canada standing on the right side of this.”

A defective process, say the attendees

Irene Simon, an expert in the field of plastic, packaging and packaging at the World Wildlife Fund, told Associated Press in December that the consensus on making decisions is to paralyze conversations.

Consensus means that every nation must agree to the existence of a law bound by law.

“Every country has a veto card,” Simon said. “They have no incentive to reach a plan and we have seen it again and again in these negotiations.”

In negotiations in Busan, South Korea, in December 2024, Saudi Arabia, Russia, India and other countries produced plastic, oil and gas materials to a treaty focusing on better management of recycling and recycling – not plastic production covers. This was the case in Geneva.

“It is very difficult to move issues like production,” Biller of IPEN told CBC News on Monday. IPEN is a global network of more than 600 organizations in 131 countries that are conducting research to help influence global policy.

“It is clear (many countries producing plastic) does not want a treaty. It is clear that the only thing they will tolerate is an agreement that addresses plastic waste management, and even there, it is difficult,” said Biller.

Biller says that focusing on waste management and recycling is pushing responsibility to the general public.

The big gap is on specific topics

The production limits and the methods of processing the chemicals used in plastic products were removed from A. Treaty draft It was presented on Wednesday, which was supposed to be the second day of negotiations.

When the countries regained Wednesday night, the Colombia delegation said that it would not accept the new draft as a basis for negotiations, describing the text unbalanced and lacking the global ambition and obligations necessary to end plastic pollution.

Canada and many other delegations – including Panama, Mexico, Chile, Ghana, Norway, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the Small Development Group Group. They are all part of the high aspiration alliance, a group of ambitious countries committed to ending plastic pollution by 2040.

“Let me be clear – this is unacceptable for future generations,” said Erar Selvir from the environment and climate change Canada.

Figi Sevindra Michael delegate will be like “cleansing the ground without stopping the tap.”

He wanted nearly 100 countries to limit plastic production, as well as treat waste cleaning and recycling. Instead, the treaty of the treaty focuses on redesigning plastic products so that they can be recycled and reused, and improves waste management.

He also did not impose global bases legally binding, and instead he requires countries to make their obligations to end plastic pollution.

Christa Siman, Vice President of Plastic at the Chemistry Industry Association in Canada, contradicts the maximum production of plastic and instead he sees recycling, reusing and reusing as the best way to move forward.

“When you have the appropriate systems for collection, sorting and recycling in place, we can actually start getting some important effects on recycling rates,” she said, referring to British Columbia, which had a 45 percent recovery rate for plastic last year.

What does this mean for Canadians

Canada has been part of the high aspiration alliance to end plastic pollution since its inauguration in 2022.

“Plastic pollution does not know any limits, as global rules are necessary to protect ecosystems, coastal societies and indigenous population, and address cross -border threats,” Keenan Nimmahdard, a journalist in the environment and climate change, told CBC News in a statement on Thursday.

Canada generates 4.7 million tons of plastic waste annually and recycled only about eight percent, according to Oceana Canada.

“If you want to fight plastic pollution effectively, then you need to do this in the source, because we make plastic for more than five decades now and the recycling has never reached dual numbers efficiency numbers.”

“We have seen the plastic wash on our beaches, fill our oceans, fill the stomachs of wildlife like whales, sea birds, and dolphins.

Mirante says that without a treaty, there are no subsequent steps for Canadians. He hopes that the government will present new legislation to provide some directives, but he says that companies should be on board to change things.

Tori Chris of the first nation in Beausoleil described negotiations as a “lost opportunity” and said they failed to address human rights.

It is part of The original international people forum on plasticA group of indigenous experts who support their rights, knowledge and solutions in all treaties, such as negotiations.

“All this work that we put in a treaty with our full and effective participation was erased (Wednesday) when they dropped the new text, but we will continue to press an ambitious and binding treaty that addresses the full life cycle of plastic,” Chris told CBC News on Wednesday.

Chris says they are not optimistic, but they will continue to work in any case because the health of our ecosystems is not negotiable.

Beeler of IPEN was originally hoping for the treatment of chemicals in plastic. Sixty -six countries supported the proposal made by Switzerland and Mexico at the beginning of the negotiations, which looked at plastic and chemicals of interest to it, and by the end, there were at least 89 countries on board.

It did not go through, but he says it will be a very easy way to regulate chemicals within plastic materials, and will help in global trade as well, as there will be more ability to predict what imports from other countries contain.

“The decision issued in 2023, he supervised 14,000 chemicals, with the realization that about a quarter of these chemicals are dangerous, linked to damage to human health, cancer, reproductive damage, etc.” said Biller, who says that about a quarter of these chemicals are dangerous, linked to damage to human health, cancer, reproductive damage, etc.. “