Overview

• Delegates from 184 countries have entered an overnight extension after ten days of negotiations failed to bridge divides over the treaty’s scope.
• Conference chair’s last-minute draft stripped most binding measures and was condemned as inacceptable by the EU, Latin American delegations and environmental NGOs.
• Oil-producing states—including Gulf nations, Russia and the US—continue to oppose production caps and seek to confine the agreement to waste-management and recycling rules.
• EU Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall affirmed the bloc’s readiness to agree to a treaty but refused to accept a watered-down text lacking enforceable limits on plastic production.
• Negotiators are drafting a revised text in search of consensus, with the treaty’s strength and final outcome still uncertain.