2023-05-31 19:50:21
DECRYPTION – Even if they got off to a bad start in Paris, the United Nations negotiations could lead to a joint declaration by countries against the excessive use of polymers, which are harmful to human health, the environment and biodiversity.
The 57 countries of the High Ambition Coalition to end plastic pollution, including France, placed a lot of hope in the negotiations that began on Monday in Paris, at UNESCO headquarters, and which are due to end this Friday. to draw up a first international treaty on the subject. But Tuesday evening, it was the consternation among the most voluntary countries which wish to limit the consumption and the production of plastic from 2040 and to establish, on the international level, the rule of the “polluter pays”.
We’re going « pour a fiasco », lamented in particular an Australian lawyer on Wednesday morning. Until Tuesday evening, around midnight, the oil-producing countries, in particular Saudi Arabia, and certain heavyweights of the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India and China) blocked discussions on procedural issues, in opposing that decisions can be taken by majority in the event of a lack of unanimity among the participating countries, as requested…
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