(14 Aug 2025)
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Geneva – 15 AUGUST 2025
1. Mid of chair Ecuador’s Ambassador to UN Luis Vayas Valdivieso announcing adjournment of meeting due to deadlock
2. Wide of plenary
3. Close of Danish Environment Minister Magnus Heunicke talking to other delegates
4. Wide of Heunicke talking to other delegates in huddle
5. Wide of plenary
6. SOUNDBITE (English) David Azoulay, Center for International Environmental Law CIEL:
“I think it means two things. It means that we’re nowhere close to having a text that could be agreed by everyone and that much more work is needed. But what it also signals is that the strategy that we saw from yesterday to present a mockery of a text that could not have been accepted by anyone, was not the right strategy.”
7. Wide of plenary
8. SOUNDBITE (English) David Azoulay, Center for International Environmental Law CIEL:
“What I saw from the plenary yesterday is that it will be extremely hard to build bridges. How do you reconcile positions between countries who refuse to even recognize that plastic pollution is a major problem, that it’s a health problem, that it is a health crisis – how do reconcile these positions with the position of countries who are not even asking for something very ambitious anymore? They made all the concession that they could over the past three years and all they want is the indication that they can have a treaty which they can strengthen in the future.”
9. Mid of Japanese delegation member
10. Wide of plenary
STORYLINE:
Negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution drew to a close in Geneva on Friday as nations remain deadlocked over whether to tackle the exponential growth of plastic production.
A new draft of the treaty was expected Thursday, the last scheduled day of negotiations, and a meeting for all of the delegates was scheduled.
It was repeatedly postponed until just before midnight. Luis Vayas Valdivieso, the chair of the negotiating committee, called delegates to the assembly hall, but said consultations on the revised draft were still ongoing.
He adjourned in less than a minute and quickly left the stage. Some in the audience gasped. They will reconvene Friday.
Many delegations said the current treaty text is unacceptable.
A draft of the treaty released Wednesday wouldn’t limit plastic production or address chemicals used in plastic products.
Instead, it’s centered on proposals where there’s broad agreement — such as reducing the number of problematic plastic products that often enter the environment and are difficult to recycle, promoting the redesign of plastic products so they can be recycled and reused, and improving waste management.
It asks nations to make commitments to ending plastic pollution, rather than imposing global, legally-binding rules.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the “lack of ambition” in the draft treaty was unacceptable, and that agreeing to a global treaty against plastic pollution “is our opportunity to make a difference.”
The talks involve representatives from 184 countries and more than 600 organizations.
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