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The last 2.5 years of negotiations have shown that consensus only decision-making will not result in the finalization of an instrument that can truly address plastic pollution
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A small group of plastic-producing countries, such as Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, India, and Iran, known as the “like-minded grouphave coordinated to disrupt the rule around how the INC makes decisions, limiting it to consensus alone. This has been the biggest roadblock in the negotiations and has allowed these few countries to express disagreement and prevent the finalization of the treaty text.
The “like-minded group” claims that the plastic crisis is a problem of poor waste management alone. If that were true, we would not have only 9% of the plastics ever produced being recycled to date. No amount of innovation and new infrastructure can accommodate the massive havoc of pollution that plastics have on our ecosystems. Besides, there’s enough legacy plastic waste in the environment, which could take decades to be tackled. Yet, production of plastics continues to grow — supported by.
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