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Plastics Treaty Talks Deadlocked With Four Days Remaining

Entrenched standoffs over life-cycle caps versus waste management policies have persisted despite intensifying industry lobbying, putting an agreement at risk before August 14.

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Plastic waste has been found from the bottom of the seas to the tops of mountains

Overview

  • Negotiations chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso warned that progress "has not been sufficient" with just four working days left to meet the August 14 deadline.
  • The publicly released draft text has expanded from 22 to 35 pages and now carries nearly 1,500 bracketed disputes among 184 country delegations.
  • Oil-producing members of the Like-Minded Group are focusing on waste management while a high-ambition coalition presses for full life-cycle measures, production caps and chemical phase-outs.
  • India aligned with the Like-Minded Group for the first time, opposing any global list of plastic products with phase-out dates on the grounds of protecting development rights.
  • The nonprofit Center for International Environmental Law reported 234 fossil fuel and chemical lobbyists registered to attend, outnumbering the combined diplomatic delegations of all 27 EU nations.