(13 Aug 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Geneva – 13 August 2025
1. Wide of protester giving speech with people holding banners
2. Close of protester
3. Wide of protesters and media in front of UN building
4. Wide of delegates walking through building
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Magnus Heunicke, Danish Environment Minister:
“To be honest, we need a breakthrough now. We have so few hours left and at some time yesterday it was like – it was all frozen. Now we need a breakthrough. We need to be able to move very fast ahead.”
6. Mid of Panama delegate
7. Mid of delegate looking at notes
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez, Panamanian climate envoy:
“Panama for certain and many other ambitious countries are gonna continue to push until the end. We only have 40 hours to get to this deal. But this deal must allow us to end plastic pollution. We are here to get a deal that allows us to end plastic pollution – we’re not here just to get a deal.”
9. Wide of Ross Eisenberg exiting boardroom
10. Mid of delegates in boardroom
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ross Eisenberg, president of America’s Plastic Makers:
“In cars, in renewable energy, in planes, in defence applications – this is what we use plastic for. We also use to keep our food safe and to make sure that we can have sort of modern life around the world. So, no – it is extremely shortsighted that this incredible material that is often frankly the lowest carbon choice should somehow be going away. And that’s not what this agreement is for. This agreement is about plastic pollution and ending plastic pollution. And we think negotiators can that this week and we really hope they will.”
12. Wide of delegates leaving boardroom
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ross Eisenberg, president of America’s Plastic Makers:
“We think there is an agreement already baked in where they are now. And it would bring waste management to the 2.7 billion people around the world that currently don’t have adequate waste management. It would promote circularity, so taking essentially taking that plastic and not making it single use anymore, giving it the ability to be reused and remade over and over and over again. And one that continues to drive down our emissions and improve our quality of life all at the same time. We think there is agreement there for that. We hope they can get there.”
14. Wide of protesters standing outside UN building holding up banner reading (English) “Our health is in your hands – Ban toxic chemicals in plastics.”
15. Mid of women wearing fake pregnancy bellies and wearing t-shirts reading (English) “Protect our health! Ban toxic plastic chemicals.”
16. Mid of photographer and protesters
STORYLINE:
With less than 40 hours left to reach a deal on plastics, negotiators in Geneva were scrambling Wednesday to resolve a deadlock caused by “red lines” of member countries.
Nations are crafting the first global, legally binding treaty on plastics pollution at the United Nations office in Switzerland.
“To be honest, we need a breakthrough now. We have so few hours left and at some time yesterday it was like – it was all frozen. Now we need a breakthrough,” Danish Environment Minister and E.U. representative Magnus Heunicke said Wednesday.
The minister lambasted “too many red lines” which make it “impossible to agree on a treaty”.
While activists call for curbing plastics production in general, lobbyists from the plastics industry warn against “extremely shortsighted” moves.
The talks are scheduled to conclude on Thursday.
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