Overview

• The talks chair’s Aug. 13 text stripped binding articles on plastic production and hazardous chemicals, prompting widespread rejection by high-ambition countries and NGOs
• Ministers from 184 nations have convened in Geneva’s final session racing to produce a revised treaty text before Thursday’s deadline
• Delegations remain divided between the oil-producing Like-Minded Group, which favors waste management, and the High Ambition Coalition seeking upstream production caps and chemical phase-outs
• Numerous delegations insist they would prefer no treaty over a watered-down outcome that omits binding measures on plastic production and chemicals
• Fossil fuel and petrochemical industry lobbyists have registered in large numbers and actively opposed binding caps, shaping negotiations throughout the talks