Overview

• The session ended without adopting a treaty and negotiators left Geneva with no date or format set for the next round of talks.
• Chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso’s revised text was described by some diplomats as an “acceptable basis for negotiation” yet contained more than 100 bracketed clauses.
• Delegations remain split between a High Ambition Coalition seeking binding limits on virgin plastic output and petrochemical-exporting states pushing a focus on waste management.
• Key disagreements persist over imposing legally binding production caps, regulating toxic additives, consensus-based decision rules and funding for developing countries.
• Environmental NGOs warned that the compromise draft is too weak to safeguard human health and ecosystems and urged sharper measures in future negotiations.