Last year, a round of negotiations (responsible for hammering a legally binding treaty) – no agreement was reached in Busan, South Korea last year. The purpose of these talks is to meet the world’s first in cutting plastic pollution after nearly two years of discussion, but no agreement has been reached, besides extending the negotiations, to draw conclusions.
Last week, the announcement in the new talks on UNEP’s website was followed by the COP16 COP16 financial agreement after the last financial transaction on biodiversity agreed in Rome. UNEP says New Plastics Talks will be held at the Palace in Geneva, Switzerland from August 5 to August 14, 2020.
The new meeting will be held on August 4 “regional consultation”.
Unresolved differences
Last year in Busan, delegates from nearly 200 countries held a week of debate on how to prevent millions of tons of plastic waste from entering the environment. But negotiations broke down after opposition from major oil-producing countries, including Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran, etc., which rejected any restrictions on global plastic polymer production.
Despite the lack of a final agreement, UNEP Chief Inger Andersen It is believed that significant progress has been made in Busan. “Of course there are 29 out of 32 articles that aim to form the treaty text,” she said in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos last year.
But since the talks in Busan, new U.S. President Donald Trump has clearly announced that he hopes to “return to plastic” and promises to increase the exploitation of hydrocarbons.
Opponents of global plastic production decline insist that UN treaties should cover Recycle Plastic waste, manage (collect, sort) waste, and design The large number of upstream products makes them easier to recycle.
“In the coming months, a lot of political and diplomatic impetus will be needed,” Andersen added in his speech at Davos. Unless countries and businesses now start implementing solutions, costs will spiral. Plastic leaks are expected to grow by 50% by 2040. The damage costs of plastic pollution are expected to be higher than the cumulative height of US$28.1 trillion between 2016 and 2040, and the costs are growing.
