Countries deadlocked on whether legally binding deal should include curbs on production and toxic chemicals
Once again negotiators will leave the plastic summit this week without a treaty, having failed to reach agreement in what was supposed to have been the final round of talks.
The delegates, who were attempting to complete a crucial treaty to end the plastic pollution crisis remain deadlocked over whether it should reduce exponential growth of plastic production and put global, legally binding controls on toxic chemicals used to make plastics.
Luis Vayas Valdivieso, the chair of the negotiating committee, wrote and presented two drafts of treaty text in Geneva based on the views expressed by the participants. The representatives from 184 countries did not agree to use either one as the basis for their negotiations.
Valdivieso said on Friday morning, as the delegates reconvened in the assembly hall, that no further action was being proposed at this stage on the latest draft. Delegates are still in talks but have not decided on the next steps.
